Passphraseless Disk Encryption Options?

RW rwmaillists at googlemail.com
Tue Sep 8 17:42:46 UTC 2015


On Tue, 8 Sep 2015 10:22:21 -0700
Analysiser wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I?m trying to perform a whole disk encryption for my boot drive to
> protect its data at rest. However I would like to have a mac OS X-ish
> full disk encryption that does not explicitly ask for a passphrase
> and would boot as normal without manual input of passphrase. I tried
> to do it with geli(8) but it seems there is no way I can avoid the
> manual interaction. Really curious if there is a way to achieve it?

What exactly do you want to do? Without some form of manual interaction
disk encryption is pointless.


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