Re: Self-destruct password

[Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>]

On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Alexander S A Kjeldaas wrote:
> You should be able to change passwords quite simply by losetuping two
> versions of the encrypted volume - one device with the old password
> and one device with the new password.  Then dding from the old device
> to the new device.

In theory, it should be possible to write a standalone program to convert
the passphrases of a encrypted volume "in-place", yes?

It would read each block using old passphrase, and write it using the new
one.

Of course, there are extra variables such as the block size... :-(

-Dan


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