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On May 25, 2017 6:06:45 PM GMT+02:00, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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>On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 10:16 AM, J. Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org> |
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>wrote: |
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>> On May 25, 2017 1:04:07 PM GMT+02:00, Kai Krakow |
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><hurikhan77@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>>Am Thu, 25 May 2017 08:34:10 +0200 |
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>>>schrieb "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>: |
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>>>> It is possible. I have it set up like that on my laptop. |
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>>>> Apart from a small /boot partition. The whole drive is encrypted. |
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>>>> Decryption keys are stored encrypted in the initramfs, which is |
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>>>> embedded in the kernel. |
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>>>And the kernel is on /boot which is unencrypted, so are your |
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>encryption |
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>>>keys. This is not much better, I guess... |
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>> A file full of random characters is encrypted using GPG. |
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>> Unencrypted, this is passed to cryptsetup. |
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>> The passphrase to decrypt the key needs to be entered upon boot. |
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>> How can this be improved? |
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>The need to enter a passphrase was the missing bit here. I thought |
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>you were literally just storing the key in the clear. |
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>As far as I can tell gpg symmetric encryption does salting and |
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>iterations by default, so you're probably fairly secure. I'm not sure |
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>if the defaults were always set up this way - if you set up that file |
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>a long time ago you might just want to check that, unless your |
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>passphrase is really complex. |
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Not sure how long ago this was. I'm planning on redoing the whole laptop in the near future anyway. |
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If anyone knows of a better way (that works without TPM) I would like to hear about it. |
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Joost |
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