[ale] Filesystem encryption

[Michael Trausch]

If you are willing to trust such a thing. I would much rather control the
security parameters, and not use the easiest biometric to forge...

After all, it is too easy to lift and reuse someone's fingerprint. Just too
easy.

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On Oct 13, 2010 7:03 PM, "Greg Freemyer" <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does using an encrypting hard drive count?
>
> I'm not sure about servers, but lots of laptops now have harddrives
> with built in encryption engines.
>
> The bios on those laptops tend to ask the user for a password (or
> fingerprint) that is fed into the drive so it can be booted from.
>
> Here's the first one I found via google:
> http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-71843.html
>
> Greg
>
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Jim Butler
> <jimbutler1234567890 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  Hi Linux People!
>> I have a question and am looking for some experienced suggestions.
>> I saw a server recently that had filesystem encryption applied to the
>> entire root filesystem volume.
>> Although I am not sure, I do believe that the encryption scheme probably
>> was not loopback (cryptoloop) because the server did not have a key
>> stored on an external device. My understanding of loopback encryption is
>> that the kernel and initrd have to be stored on at least some kind of
>> un-encrypted media in order to boot to at least a small level sufficient
>> to ask for the pass-key to decrypt/mount the filesystem.
>> If the encryption scheme wasn't loopback encryption, what could it have
>> been? What ways are popular right now for encrypting an entire root
>> filesystem without using a thumbdrive or other external storage??
>> If someone can help me identify what this was, maybe I can read up on it
>> and implement it on one of my own servers.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Jim Butler
>> Linux Network Administrator.
>>
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