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Date:      Fri, 15 Jun 2012 10:04:43 -0400
From:      Matt Piechota <piechota@argolis.org>
To:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Pre-boot authentication / geli-aware bootcode
Message-ID:  <4FDB40FB.2090806@argolis.org>
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On 06/15/2012 09:39 AM, Aaron Zauner wrote:
> AFAIK you'd need something similary to initrd
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initrd), which, to the best of my
> knowledge, does not currently exist in freebsd.
>

Even that leaves the initrd (and /boot) unencrypted (as in Linux). The 
Windowsy ones I've seen appear to load the decryption driver right out 
of the MBR and work from there. I haven't done detailed investigation on 
it, but I think TrueCrypt does work this way and is FOSS (although with 
their own license that requires attribution and whatnot).
http://www.truecrypt.org/legal/license

-- 
Matt Piechota




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