From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from tansi.org (ns.km10532-04.keymachine.de [87.118.102.195]) by mail.saout.de (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Sun, 7 Nov 2010 23:44:18 +0100 (CET) Received: from gatewagner.dyndns.org (84-74-164-239.dclient.hispeed.ch [84.74.164.239]) by tansi.org (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 8CA4A121856B for ; Sun, 7 Nov 2010 23:44:15 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 23:44:14 +0100 From: Arno Wagner Message-ID: <20101107224414.GA14195@tansi.org> References: <1288808772.11023.5.camel@acer> <20101103223431.GA20934@tansi.org> <1288848713.3936.2.camel@acer> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1288848713.3936.2.camel@acer> Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] Feitian PKI donation to dm-crypt projetc List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: dm-crypt@saout.de On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 06:31:53AM +0100, Jean-Michel Pour? - GOOZE wrote: > Le mercredi 03 novembre 2010 ?? 23:34 +0100, Arno Wagner a ??crit : > > The main dm-crypt/LUKS focus is encrypted partitions in > > an otherwise not encrypted system. > > Thank you for answers. Reading them, I understand I did not explain > correctly. > > I would like to encrypt a whole system using dm-crypt. The problem is > that I have to run pcsc prior to mounting partitions. But then pcsc will > need access to libraries, which need to be on a mounted partition. > > Is there a way around? No. You have to read something from disk in order to boot and that something needs to be unencrypted. You can do an initrd that is unencrypted or a boot-sector like TrueCrypt (and grub 2?), but neither quelifies as full system encryption. For dm-crypt, the initrd is the means of coice. Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno@wagner.name GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier