Musings about on-disk encryption in Fedora Core

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Mon Jul 5 18:56:43 UTC 2004


On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 07:58:37PM +0200, Nils Philippsen wrote:
> initrd rather in the normal initscripts so that configuration (which
> real device gets mapped to what dm device, cipher to be used, key
> length, ...) is on /etc were possible and _not_ hidden in the initrd.

Without the key you can't get to the rootfs so I am not sure where else
you would put such things for the interesting cases. Maybe a link would
be appropriate from /etc (as with grub.conf ?) to files on /boot ?






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