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Folks: |
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I am pleased to announce that with Mike Petullo's help, I have been able |
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to get an encrypted-root system WORKING with my Gentoo 2.6 laptop, using |
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a random string that is stored on a USB dongle; this string is encrypted |
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with GPG. |
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I have been working on writing this up, cleaning up everything; it is |
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taking days to do so. |
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Work in progress documentation is available at |
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http://www.sdc.org/~leila/usb-dongle/README |
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The entire setup - a minix-based RAMDisk, and a tarballed filesystem for |
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the USB-dongle - has been posted to |
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http://www.sdc.org/~leila/usb-dongle/ |
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This setup is working for me on an x86 system; you will need to replace |
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the binaries on the usb tarball with your actual binaries (just copy |
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them over from a working linux system, taking care to copy over any |
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shared libs as well). |
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Although I am starting to use this setup in production use, I keep |
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backups of everything, and assume it is going to eat my hard disk at any |
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moment. More pounding is needed. |
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At this point I want to focus on getting the documentation completed, |
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and augmented some other, recently-produced encrypted-root documentation |
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that was posted on linux-crypto. |
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After I have written down the bones, next steps are left to other |
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people, I think: I know that Mike has a PPC system; if other ppl could |
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make this work for other architectures, and if we could get some |
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feedback about testing, then I could post an announcement to |
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gentoo-forums and we could get some more testers. |
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Cheers! |
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~ - boyd |
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Boyd Waters |
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http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~bwaters |
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where the hell is Socorro, New Mexico? |
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