Too secure to be practical!

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 November 2009 01:47:09 Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>> > Between finding an blog on the subject and reading the FM, I've come to
>> > the conclusion that the only way to handle this is through cryptsetup -
>> > which makes sense.  The problem is that as far as I can see you can't get
>> > anywhere without  knowing either the device name or it's mapping under
>> > /dev - and probably both.  Based on the information above, I tried
>>
>> Unless i completely miss understand the problem, the LUKS creates just
>> another partion, removable with any partition manager. Said manager
>> doesn't need to understand what is in it to remove it. Mount and
>> decrypt the partition, copy the data to hard drive, complete wipe the
>> media card and partiton/format to something that you prefer and copy
>> the data back.
>>
> Partition manager appear not to see it

'it' here would be /dev/sdX where the media card is linked to right?
If so, I'm out of suggestions.

Ie. if `fdisk -l /dev/sdX` or equivalent doesn't show the partition,
you should at least be able to create a new one over it.

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