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From: Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
To: Boyd Waters <bwaters+moz@××××.edu>
Cc: gentoo-hardened@g.o, mike@××××.org, norman_b_robinson@×××××.com
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Re: Hardened Laptops / Talk is cheap
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 23:09:07
Message-Id: 1061852902.12539.33.camel@simple
In Reply to: [gentoo-hardened] Re: Hardened Laptops / Talk is cheap by Boyd Waters
1 Is there any reason that these two types of setups (mikes, and what your
2 working on) could no coexist?
3
4 On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 13:54, Boyd Waters wrote:
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8 > Ned Ludd wrote:
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10 > | *) Needs to work for 2.4.x & 2.6.x
11 > | *) We would like them to have is an automated method of doing this from
12 > | the live-cd
13 > | *) Need Gentoo HOWTO / instructions written.
14 > | *) The storage medium should be abstracted.
15 > | usb, stick memory, floppy, cd, etc.. any of those should be able to
16 > | store the keys
17 > | *) Solution must pass public critique process. eg: win the approval of
18 > | this list.
19 > | *) Talk is cheap so show us the code.
20 >
21 >
22 > I agree that any solution that individuals have come up with is not very
23 > interesting until it is pacakged and tested so that many people can use it.
24 >
25 > Perhaps we need to re-set expectations a bit: although many have met
26 > with success with loop-AES, for example, the encrypted-root procedure
27 > that is automated by loop-AES has NEVER worked for me.
28 >
29 > ~From the encrypted-disk thread on forums.gentoo.org, it is clear that
30 > many users are all too ready to trust any sort of documented procedure
31 > and are quite willing to Cuisinart their data without getting into
32 > encruypted-root in an incremental way.
33 >
34 > The reason you haven't seen more writted stuff from me on this is
35 > because I am trying to TEST this stuff before sharing it with others.
36 > Particularly for an ecrypted root system, this takes a bit of time.
37 >
38 > Mike has an initrd system that seems to work. I tried to test this last
39 > week but did not have spare time. I have to have about three hours of
40 > quiet time to test something like this in a useful (i.e. reproducable) way.
41 >
42 > So my talk will be cheap for quite some time, I expect.
43 >
44 > - - boyd
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59 Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
60 Gentoo Linux Developer (Hardened)

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