I have never seen any stars in my Luks screen. As long as it decrypts the drive i see no real issue here.
On 12/18/2017 02:41 PM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 06:41:00PM +0530, root kea wrote: >> Hello! >> >> I am using LUKS on LVM on Debian Stretch. I have encrypted /home and >> swap partition. When initram gets loaded it asks for password to >> decrypt swap partition. That passowrd doesn't get printed to screen. >> No stars. Nothing. >> >> But After which Kernel gets loaded (I think) and it asks password for >> /home which gets printed as stars. I'm really worried about this. Here >> is a screenshot https://imgur.com/bC4AF6H >> >> How do I prevent those stars from getting printed on the screen? >> > Whether stars are echoed or nothing is echoed, the passphrase remains > concealed. What is the precise vulnerability that you are trying to > address? > > Regards, > > -Roberto >
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