geli remote password entering

[Xin Li]

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On 08/24/12 04:16, brouci tykadylko wrote:
> Thinking about encrypting everything except /boot by geli(+zfs).
> Since server is remote, there is a problem with entering the key
> after restart. There is a possibility of KVM at datacenter, but I
> don't want to bother with it upon every reboot, and not speaking
> about possibility of remote interception. My idea so far is to use
> RAMdisk image with bare ssh like DropBear (like here:
> http://www.webgroup.ch/linuxtag2006/Paper.pdf), but i still didn't
> try. Dream solution is a bootloader with a ssh interface, but I
> didn't hear about any for fBSD. Did any of you try something
> similar? Or do you have any other idea?

I have posted something with similar idea here:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2012-August/006547.html

But this is different -- you can't have only /boot unencrypted because
it requires / and /usr be available at very early boot time.
Personally I'm not quite concerned with / unencrypted -- you could
reveal /etc/master.passwd in the worst case but sensitive data can be
stored in encrypted partitions.

Cheers,
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Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net>    https://www.delphij.net/
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