Re: Fedora 32 System-Wide Change proposal: Disallow Empty Password By Default

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On Thursday, December 12, 2019 6:54:38 AM MST Marius Schwarz wrote:
> Am 06.12.19 um 21:04 schrieb Chris Murphy:
> 
> > swap being compromised. Case 2 is present day Fedora "full disk
> > encryption" which does not lock down the bootloader,  /boot volume is
> > not encrypted, and thus the initramfs is vulnerable to a targeted
> > attack which could be used to deploy a key logger or whatever you're
> > worried about in Case 1.
> 
> 
> Not encrypting /boot may be the default in the installer, but does not
> mean, you can't go the full way.
> 
> You can simply activate /boot/ encryption. Grub will ask you for your
> luks password while booting.
> 
> But pls see the other message, I won't repeat myself. But your right, It
> really depends on the threadmodel you wanne counter.
> 
> My point is, make it as hard as possible, otherwise you way just think,
> your safe, when your not.

Actually, it turns out you can accomplish this with blivet-gui in the current 
Anaconda ISOs, so current images do actually offer the option for real FDE.

-- 
John M. Harris, Jr.
Splentity

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