Somewhat OT, encryption question

Florian Weimer fw at deneb.enyo.de
Sun Nov 30 09:34:12 UTC 2014


* Bill Oliver:

> Is there anything like that for fedora?

There is some work on TPM support for LUKS.  I don't know if it has
made its way into Fedora, though.

> It would probably be pretty easy to hack the gpg source code to add
> a few lines to append system information to the passphrase, but if
> there's something already around, I'd like to play with it...

This isn't very secure, you also need to make sure that the
information cannot be copied.  TPM achieves that.


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