LUKS functionality doesn't work at all on Windows 10 with Japanese locale

t-d-k / LibreCrypt

LibreCrypt: Transparent on-the-fly disk encryption for Windows. LUKS compatible.

https://LibreCrypt.tdksoft.co.uk

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LUKS functionality doesn't work at all on Windows 10 with Japanese locale #57

Open AlicesReflexion opened 8 years ago

AlicesReflexion commented 8 years ago

This was actually working fine a few hours ago for me, but after restarting my computer, it suddenly stopped working. I can't mount anything LUKS, I can't create anything LUKS. Any attempts simply result in a "Unable to open container. Please check your keyphrase and settings, and try again." I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling and installing and reinstalling FreeOTFE and it just refuses to work.

AlicesReflexion commented 8 years ago

After a lot of troubleshooting, I found the issue. LUKS doesn't work when the Windows non-unicode locale is set to Japanese. Might be the case with other languages, I haven't tested.

t-d-k commented 8 years ago

Does the password contain non-ASCII characters? If it does, this is a known limitation - see the Readme.

AlicesReflexion commented 8 years ago

Nope. No LUKS functionality works at all. Neither my actual LUKS partition, nor the luks.box test file. But when I change the system's locale back to en-US, and restart my computer, everything works exactly as expected.