From: Heinz Diehl <htd+ml@fritha.org>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] Using a removable-device-recorded passphrase to decrypt a system
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 14:59:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150626125918.GA1672@fritha.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150626123047.GB12997@tansi.org>
On 26.06.2015, Arno Wagner wrote:
> My advice is to not encrypt the system partition itself, just
> all user and data partitions.
I wonder if the passphrase could leak to the unencrypted system partition in such
a scenario. E.g. memory contents dumped to disk while crashing or
similar. In fact, I don't know what is possible or not, I'm just
curious..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-26 12:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-25 14:57 [dm-crypt] Using a removable-device-recorded passphrase to decrypt a system Arbiel (gmx)
2015-06-26 12:30 ` Arno Wagner
2015-06-26 12:59 ` Heinz Diehl [this message]
2015-06-26 13:19 ` Arno Wagner
2015-06-26 13:53 ` Sven Eschenberg
2015-06-26 23:06 ` Arno Wagner
2015-06-26 14:00 ` Sven Eschenberg
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