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From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
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Subject: Re: booting gbde-encrypted filesystem
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Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org> wrote:

> This is not not possible with current GBDE.
> I've patches which allows this here:
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> 	http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/patches/gbde.patch

I fail to see how this allows an encryted root-FS, it doesn't add gbde
support to boot0(ext) or to the loader. It needs access to an unencrypted
kernel. I don't think this is what Ronnel had in mind (overlooking the fact
that his suggestion to save the passphrase in the loader is insecure).

Bye,
Alexander.

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