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Date:      Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:25:08 +0200
From:      Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        yarodin <yarodin@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Pipes password from kdialog to geli attach
Message-ID:  <20070923152508.GB1123@garage.freebsd.pl>
In-Reply-To: <200709222256.17692.yarodin@gmail.com>
References:  <200709222256.17692.yarodin@gmail.com>

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On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 10:56:17PM +0600, yarodin wrote:
> init:
> password=3D`kdialog --password "Enter the password"`
> echo $password|sha256|geli init -s 4096 -P -K - /dev/ad0s1e
>=20
> atach:
> password=3D`kdialog --password "Enter the password"`
> echo $password|sha256|geli attach -p -k - /dev/ad0s1e
>=20
> Is it very unsecure? May be a better method exists?

It depends. Most (if not all) shells have echo command built-in, so
noone will see 'echo <password>' in ps(1) output, although, maybe simply
do:

kdialog --password "Enter the password" | geli attach -p -k - /dev/ad0s1e

?

BTW. sha256 is not needed.

Also, as it was mentioned, keyfiles are not preprocessed by PKCS#5v2,
but this is a good example why it's worth adding such functionality.

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
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