Re: avoid keyloggers: enter password with mouse (virtual keyboard)

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Arno Wagner wrote:
> 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.

I meant a hardware keylogger, sorry I didn't clarify that.

Olivier
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