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Re: "gpg key file decryption failed"

Hi,

I'm on step 19 of "7.6. Example 6 - Boot from CD-ROM + encrypted root
partition".
dd if=/dev/hda2 bs=64k \
| /mnt/aespipe -e AES128 -K /mnt/rootkey.gpg -G / \
| dd of=/dev/hda2 bs=64k conv=notrunc
returns "gpg key file decryption failed". I tried it more than 10 times
and even recreated rootkey.gpg/changed the passphrase. The keymaps are
identical.
What else could cause this problem?

Maybe because /mnt partition does not have statically linked gpg program.
aespipe program uses gpg to decrypt the key file.

Well, I now tried a passphrase without special characters and it worked. But I have no idea why because as I've said the keymaps are identical (I checked that at the konsole).

Any other ideas why this could happen?

How can I change my passphrase?

Is there a way to create a second valid passphrase (to avoid to lock me out if the new passphrase won't work)?

Thanks,

Christian

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