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Nelson wrote: |
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>Cool, I'll look into it. If anyone offers to patch the *.py files I can do |
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>the rest and specify what it needs to be done. |
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Sorry, I thought you ment look into support encryption directly on catalyst |
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:S. |
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Like I said, I think it's not possible without a patch. Yes, luks is |
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provided by genkernel, I wasn't sure how so I mentioned a (temp) hack. But |
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the compressed image cannot be touched by Catalyst now. The alternative is |
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make a neatly integrated support on it, with fields like encryption/seed. |
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>There's at least one or two more LUKS-related patches/bugs in |
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>bugzilla. |
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Considering that and the 2 loops requir., maybe it's better to stick to |
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loop-aes. |
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I made a simple picture, just for those not following, with a simple |
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correction (no need to do mksquashfs twice, we just dd it to the open loop): |
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---(X)---> means "mapped" to by X. |
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%%%%%%%%%%%%% |
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Crypt (luks): |
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Step 1: random_file (made with dd, same size as squashfs) ---(losetup)---> |
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/dev/loop1----(luks)----> /dev/mapper/root (this is the unencrypted dev |
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where we put the root) |
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step 2: image.squashfs ----(dd)----> /dev/mapper/root |
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%%%%% |
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Crypt (loop-aes) |
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step1: |
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random_file_as_above ----(loop+aes)----> /dev/loop0 (the unencrypted dev |
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where we put the root); |
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step2: |
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image.squashfs ----(dd)----> /dev/loop0 |
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%%%%%%%%%%%%% |
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Uncrypt: |
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luks: |
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encrypted_squashfs ---(losetup)---> /dev/loop0 ---(luks)---> |
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/dev/mapper/cd_root |
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loop+aes: |
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encrypted_squashfs ---(losetup+aes)---> /dev/cd_root. |
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