encrypted persistence 'No key available with this passphrase'

[borjeo]

I followed the '03 – Kali Linux USB Persistence' guide at https://docs.kali.org/kali-dojo/03-kali-linux-usb-persistence-encryption


I get 'No key available with this passphrase' and I know that the passphrase is correct.

If I boot into Ubuntu 17.10 and plug the drive in, I can unlock the persistence volume that I created just fine and I see the persistence.conf

The only deviations that I made from the instructions is I formatted the persistence partition as ext4 instead of ext3.

Does anyone know why I can decrypt this partition mounted in Ubuntu, but not from it as part of a Live Kali boot USB?


Thanks!

Borjeo Von Dingle

[borjeo]

I figured out the problem.

I had an encrypted partition on SDA, the main hard drive which runs Ubuntu.
I booted off of the USB for Kali, which is SDB, and the prompt was telling me SDA.... I just didn't pay enough attention to the device.

The passphrase prompt shown first is for SDA, my Ubuntu install. once I clicked NO do not retry, it then prompted me for the passphrase for the encrypted partition for the persistence partition.