booting gbde-encrypted filesystem

Ronnel P. Maglasang rmaglasang at infoweapons.com
Fri Jul 29 08:00:07 GMT 2005


Thanks.

Let me clarrify, is this patch of yours allows
the passphrase to be entered from the bootloader?
Or where? Is there a patch needed for the bootloader
for this? Thanks again

Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:

>On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 01:18:10PM +0800, Ronnel P. Maglasang wrote:
>+> Hello,
>+> 
>+> I think there was already a thread on this. I just
>+> want to raise the question again if anyone has successfully
>+> booted an gdbe-encrypted filesystem (everything encrypted except
>+> the bootloader). The passphrase is entered at the bootloader prompt
>+> or embedded in the bootloader.
>
>This is not not possible with current GBDE.
>I've patches which allows this here:
>
>	http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/patches/gbde.patch
>
>  
>



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