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Re: LUKS password gets printed as stars



I have never seen any stars in my Luks screen.

As long as it decrypts the drive i see no real issue here.


On 12/18/2017 02:41 PM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 06:41:00PM +0530, root kea wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> I am using LUKS on LVM on Debian Stretch. I have encrypted /home and
>> swap partition. When initram gets loaded it asks for password to
>> decrypt swap partition. That passowrd doesn't get printed to screen.
>> No stars. Nothing.
>>
>> But After which Kernel gets loaded (I think) and it asks password for
>> /home which gets printed as stars. I'm really worried about this. Here
>> is a screenshot https://imgur.com/bC4AF6H
>>
>> How do I prevent those stars from getting printed on the screen?
>>
> Whether stars are echoed or nothing is echoed, the passphrase remains
> concealed.  What is the precise vulnerability that you are trying to
> address?
>
> Regards,
>
> -Roberto
>


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