Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:46:59 +0000 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does geli metadata contain sensitive information? Message-ID: <20100127144659.59f84863@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <64c038661001270313v7990c0b9m6dff12504f04cfef@mail.gmail.com> References: <64c038661001270313v7990c0b9m6dff12504f04cfef@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:13:42 -0700 Modulok <modulok@gmail.com> wrote: > Does a geli metadata backup contain any sensitive information? Like... > should apply the same precations as I do the key and password? If you change the keyfile the metadata is changed and the old keyfile becomes useless; but if the attacker also has the old metadata file they can make use of the old keyfile. Likewise if someone has the metadata you lose the ability to delete all copies of it making the partition instantaneously unrecoverable.
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