You can do this by having cryptsetup read the passphrase from stdin and attach such a virtual keyboard to stdin. However as a keylogger has to be root and root can read the encryption key from memory, it is pretty useless security-wise. Arno On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 05:10:13PM +0200, Olivier Sessink wrote: > Hi all, > > several disk encryption products feature a virtual keyboard, so users > can use the mouse to enter the password which makes keyloggers > useless. Has anyone ever tried something like that with cryptsetup? > > regards, > Olivier > _______________________________________________ > dm-crypt mailing list > dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx > http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt > -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno@xxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
