Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs.ext@×××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cryptfs
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:04:19
Message-Id: 200804010804.10144.dirk.heinrichs.ext@nsn.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Cryptfs by Neil Bothwick
1 Am Dienstag, 1. April 2008 schrieb ext Neil Bothwick:
2 > On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:15:54 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
3 > > > That's right, because the keys aren't in /boot ;-)
4 > >
5 > > But they are somewhere. He who has cracked your box can simply look
6 > > into /etc/conf.d/dmcrypt to find out where your keyfile is stored and
7 > > mount that fs if needed.
8 >
9 > Not without the password. That filesystem uses a password, not a keyfile.
10
11 You didn't tell this before. Now I finally got the whole picture.
12
13 Bye...
14
15 Dirk
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Re: [gentoo-user] Cryptfs Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>