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Date:      Fri, 30 Dec 2016 19:35:19 +0100
From:      Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org>
To:        Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS and GPT boot - size issue bootblock v.s. default of sysinstall
Message-ID:  <AA9367DE-A56B-458A-927D-C228386507E9@webweaving.org>
In-Reply-To: <0ac24a2a-ae82-be4a-d162-b0c62e5b0d13@freebsd.org>
References:  <AB657A06-8886-4EA5-9323-92317707B039@webweaving.org> <068c90c2-61c0-2fbc-3984-0bc937e19d63@freebsd.org> <10FC4055-5650-4C68-A07B-FBA7BF6BB60A@webweaving.org> <0ac24a2a-ae82-be4a-d162-b0c62e5b0d13@freebsd.org>

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> On 30 Dec 2016, at 19:25, Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>=20
>>> The other option is to rebuild gptzfsboot without GELI support, and =
then
>>> it will be under 64 KB.
>>=20
>> Unfortunately - we rather rely on GELI and PKCS#11.
>=20
> This would only apply to gptzfsboot, the new feature I introduced in
> 11.0 that allows you to have even the /boot directory encrypted =
(rather
> than having an unencrypted ufs partition, or a 2nd zpool that is not
> encrypted).
>=20
> If you are upgrading from 10.x or earlier, you can use gptzfsboot
> without GELI, since it didn't exist before.

Ah - good to know. thanks for that!

We=E2=80=99re not quite there yet - as we need a modicum of PKCS#11 to =
negotiate with the TPM (or on low end archive machines; a USB =
smartcard/token) - i.e a tad beyond geli_passphrase().

Dw.=



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