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installers after a complete backup of all LUKS containers has been
made.
NO WARNING ON NON-INERACTIVE FORMAT: If you feed cryptsetup from
STDIN (e.g. via GPG) on LUKS format, it does not give you the
warning that you are about to format (and e.g. will lose any
pre-existing LUKS container on the target), as it assumes it is
used form a script. In this scenario, the responsibility for
warning the user and possibly checking for an existing LUKS header
goes over to the script. This is a more general form of the
previous item.
LUKS PASSPHRASE IS NOT THE MASTER KEY: The LUKS passphrase is not
used in deriving the master key. It is used in decrypting a master
key that is randomly selected on header creation. This means that