Re: encrypting user homes by default, meeting summary

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* Chris Murphy:

> One thing I got from Lennart that I don't have a complete assessment
> on, is to what degree he's replicated fscrypt (userspace tool from
> Google) functionality. He's hooking into fscrypt (kernel code)
> directly, and doesn't have any of the fancier key management that
> Google fscrypt has - i.e. Google fscrypt let's you change the user
> master passphrase, which is a wrapped key, separate from the secret
> key (let's call it a DEK, even though there is one DEK and then there
> are many derived DEK's for each file), so that it's not necessary to
> reencrypt everything. Whereas systemd-homed lacks this feature, so it
> requires 50% free space to reencrypt everything in case of user
> passphrase changes.

Does the current state of affairs enable key escrow without sharing the
passphrase (hashed or not)?

I expect that key escrow could be pretty important to some users.

Thanks,
Florian
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