Hi, You may want look into using TPM and trusted-grub. This allows you to bind a key to the physical device, and then only that device can mount/decrypt the disk. (I never done this myself no idea how hard or easy this is, neither I know how secure this really is. And well, as it is physically bound to a system, you have to have a real system, no VM and transfer it to other Hardware is not easy too) Additional, you have to be careful to secure your OS while it runs (eg, make it impossible to gain root, secure everything from the user....thats no easy task, maybe even impossible with current OSes) Imho, you should try not go this road. As with a lot of systems, you have to think about every possible way to compromise the system (you most likely will forget one), but the attacker has only to find ONE way to break it. Just not worth the effort. Depending on your requirements, you may want think about hosting the software at a trusted location, and have your users use it remotely. Or drop the technical solution in favor of a legal solutions. publish your source, so you have prove of ownership and release date (or use another way to make sure your code will be recognized as yours by a court afterwards). Have your software "pone home" and get a laywer. Make it clear you WILL go to court. Most companies fear lawyers much more than nerds. Breaking technical things seems to be a "gentlemen offence", breaking legal things is considered "expensive". On 25.05.2012 04:29, Nuno Reis wrote: > Good morning. > > I would like to ask you about the best choice to have one or two luks > encrypted partitions to boot automatically between reboots without me to > enter a pass-phrase. > I've made this already, but the way i'm doing it seems to be not very > secure since the keyfile is referenced in /etc/crypttab and the keyfile and > /etc/crypttab both reside on an unencrypted partition. If someone clones my > HDD and connect it to some other system will easily be able to mount the > unencrypted partitions and find the keyfile reference on /etc/crypttab to > get the keyfile and unencrypt the protected partitions right? > So basically my problem is that i want to sell a linux server with some > software i've developed to a datacenter (as an appliance), but i don't want > them to get to my software easily and i can't have a password prompt > between reboots also. > Can you point me out what you think would be the best solution for me? > Thanks. > > BR, > Nuno. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > dm-crypt mailing list > dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx > http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
