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Date:      Wed, 6 Sep 2006 23:00:21 +0200
From:      Frank Steinborn <steinex@nognu.de>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Getting GELI Keys from Floppy
Message-ID:  <20060906210021.C2428B82C@shodan.nognu.de>

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Hello,

i want to encrypt my HDD's with GELI (not the root-fs, though). I want
to do the encryption without password, just with a key. The key should
be stored in a floppy disk, and the read should be read automatically
on boot, from the floppy.

There is a problem here, because GELI initializes _before_ mounting
the disks from /etc/fstab (for obvious reasons, of course). So GELI is
not able to get the keys from the floppy and fails.

So, any hints how I could get the floppy mounted _before_ GELI tries
to initialize?

Thanks in advance,
Frank



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