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Has any work been done to boot from an encrypted filesystem, or otherwise
modify the loader to support GBDE with a "compiled-in" passphrase? The
purpose would be to prevent reverse engineering of an appliance based on
FreeBSD. Thoughts, ideas?

Thanks!

Chris