Le 26/12/2017 à 11:36, tomas@tuxteam.de a écrit :
On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 10:42:46AM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote:Note however that in any case, the early part of GRUB cannot be encrypted [...]Is there any inherent advantage to having /boot encrypted?
I can imagine a few situations.- When you can enforce the early stage of GRUB integrity by storing it on removable or read-only boot media, checking it with trusted computing, TPM... You could extend this to the whole /boot directory contents instead of encrypting it but parts of it such as the kernel image, initramfs and grub.cfg change quite often, while GRUB itself seldom changes. An alternative to /boot encryption is to sign its contents so that GRUB early stage can check the files when loading them.
- When you need to store sensitive data in /boot, such as passphrases for other encrypted volumes.