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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 encryption |
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keys. This is not much better, I guess... |
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> On May 25, 2017 12:40:12 AM GMT+02:00, Rich Freeman |
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> <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> >On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 2:16 PM, Andrew Savchenko |
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> ><bircoph@g.o> wrote: |
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> >> |
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> >> Apparently it is pointless to encrypt swap if unencrypted |
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> >> hibernation image is used, because all memory is accessible through |
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> >> that image (and even if it is deleted later, it can be restored |
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> >> from hdd and in some cases from ssd). |
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> >Yeah, that was my main concern with an approach like that. I imagine |
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> >you could use a non-random key and enter it on each boot and restore |
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> >from the encrypted swap, though I haven't actually used hibernation |
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> >on linux so I'd have to look into how to make that work. I imagine |
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> >with an initramfs it should be possible. |
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Regards, |
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Kai |
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