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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cryptfs
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:11:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080331231156.036f2049@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47F10E3A.1080401@online.de>

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On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:15:54 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:

> > That's right, because the keys aren't in /boot ;-)  
> 
> But they are somewhere. He who has cracked your box can simply look into
> /etc/conf.d/dmcrypt to find out where your keyfile is stored and mount
> that fs if needed.

Not without the password. That filesystem uses a password, not a keyfile.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Blessed be the pessimist for he hath made backups.

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-31 22:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-29 17:32 [gentoo-user] Cryptfs Florian Philipp
2008-03-30  7:50 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2008-03-30 11:24   ` Florian Philipp
2008-03-30 11:24     ` Dirk Heinrichs
2008-03-30 13:06   ` Neil Bothwick
2008-03-30 16:50     ` Dirk Heinrichs
2008-03-30 20:13       ` Neil Bothwick
2008-03-31  6:36         ` Dirk Heinrichs
2008-03-31  8:11           ` Neil Bothwick
2008-03-31 16:15             ` Dirk Heinrichs
2008-03-31 22:11               ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2008-04-01  6:04                 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2008-04-01  7:49                   ` Neil Bothwick

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