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Re: ***HUGE*** security hole??!! (Re: Lost root passwd)



George Bonser <grep@shorelink.com> writes:
> My problem with encrypted filesystems is that if you loose the key, you
> might as well mkfs the drive.

There are ways around this.  You could, for example, break the key
into five pieces using a secret sharing scheme and put them in five
different secure places, arranging that three of the pieces are needed 
to reconstruct the key.
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