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Re: Decrypting LUKS from initramfs; was: Re: ext2 for /boot ???



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Hi,

On 30/09/18 16:44, deloptes wrote:
> Celejar wrote:
> 
>> But grub itself and its configuration can't be encrypted, so an 
>> attacker could still compromise that code / data. IIUC, your
>> solution basically just implies moving some of the logic
>> currently in the initramfs into grub.
> 
> Yes, this is the point I am making.
> 
>> One solution is to run grub from removable media, and preventing 
>> attackers from getting physical access to it ...

You can sometimes do remote mounting in something like HP's iLO ....
you could mount a floppy or ISO image and boot it with the image only
being available from a client machine using iLo.  But it won't work
for machines without such capability.

Cheers
A.
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