Re: encrpyt harddrive without passphrase/userinput
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 11:17:56PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Horst Pflugstaedt:
>
> > I just ask myself why you bother encrypting a filesystem that will be
> > accessible to anyone having access to the machine since it boots without
> > password?
>
> You can return hard disks to the vendor for warranty claims even if
> they still contain sensitive data.
even if the disk boots in another machine, thus revealing the sensitive
data? If there is no protection to the encryption, encrypting a
filesystem is just useless waste of cpu-time.
As Jan pointed out: you need a secret for encryption.
g'night
Horst
>
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