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Re: [gentoo-user] Cryptfs

Dirk Heinrichs

2008-04-01

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Am Dienstag, 1. April 2008 schrieb ext Neil Bothwick:
> 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.

You didn't tell this before. Now I finally got the whole picture.

Bye...

 Dirk
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