[Whonix-devel] [dm-crypt] Troubleshooting: Header Conversion to argon2id

procmem procmem at riseup.net
Wed Sep 12 06:16:00 CEST 2018



Ondrej Kozina:
> On 09/11/2018 07:09 PM, procmem wrote:
>> Hi, I went ahead and tested the commands recommended by Milan for
>> converting headers to use the better pbkdf algo. Unfortunately I'm
>> running into an obscure error and wanted your advice on how to solve it.
>>
>> Please see the output of the command with --debug
>>
> Hi,
> 
> luksConvertKey command works only on LUKS2 keyslots. Looking at debug
> output it seems your device is not LUKS2 type.
> 
> Regards
> Ondrej

Now that I think about it this can't be the reason because the header is
LUKS2 when using cryptsetup 2.0 and above - which is the version
included in Debian Testing/Buster.

Also running 'cryptsetup convert' with --debug gives the same error.


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