On 01/15/2014 09:27 PM, Milan Broz wrote:
On 01/14/2014 05:30 AM, Arno Wagner wrote:
I think that in your scenario, "nuke" does not have any real
advantages over just not having the passphrase, and that one
is dangerous.
Well, this idea is not new and I responded very similar months ago.
http://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/issues/detail?id=110#c1
But seems there is a lot of people in disagreement.
I was quite surprised that most of people from
our university security&crypto lab I met today and asked
(to have some other opinions) said that despite "nuke password"
has very limited use it is worth to have something like that...
Sigh... :)
In that case, let me join you with my humble Sigh as well.
But what I really want to avoid is that every distribution will
add some random patches implementing something like this.
It is perhaps better to implement and document this upstream.
Ok, I just think that this new feature is quite heavily disputed
already. This is perhaps third discussion I found on that topic in a few
minutes of searching. Please, make "nuke password" option configurable
so that it can be easily removed from any distribution that wouldn't
agree with arguments for including it.
Best regards
Ondra
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