On 20-11-2015 17:57, Jayesh Badwaik wrote:
> On Friday, November 20, 2015 05:46:18 PM Mauro Santos wrote:
>> Not really, BIOS is old and it doesn't know anything about OPAL drives.
>> I don't know about UEFI machines but I suspect not many know about
>> SEDs/OPAL either.
> By BIOS, I meant UEFI, so
On Friday, November 20, 2015 05:46:18 PM Mauro Santos wrote:
> Not really, BIOS is old and it doesn't know anything about OPAL drives.
> I don't know about UEFI machines but I suspect not many know about
> SEDs/OPAL either.
By BIOS, I meant UEFI, sorry about that. My UEFI is from 2013 (Dell Latitud
On 20-11-2015 16:24, Jayesh Badwaik wrote:
>> Because I'm talking about this [1] and not software based encryption.
>> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware-based_full_disk_encryption
> Shouldn't BIOS take care of that?
>
Not really, BIOS is old and it doesn't know anything about OPAL drive
On 20-11-2015 16:54, Aron Widforss wrote:
> And when a vuln is found it is helluva lot harder to fix the hardware
> than just patchinig the system.
Unless said vuln is easily exploitable by garden variety thieves I'll
take my chances.
For other adversaries see: http://xkcd.com/538/
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Mauro San
On 20-11-2015 16:13, Damjan Georgievski wrote:
> On 20 November 2015 at 17:04, Mauro Santos wrote:
>> On 20-11-2015 17:19, Joan Aymà wrote:
>>> Why should not be easier to boot following Disk_Encryption on the wiki[1]?
>>>
>>> Regards.
>>>
>>> [1]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Disk_encryptio
On 11/20/2015 05:13 PM, Damjan Georgievski wrote:
On 20 November 2015 at 17:04, Mauro Santos wrote:
On 20-11-2015 17:19, Joan Aymà wrote:
Why should not be easier to boot following Disk_Encryption on the wiki[1]?
Regards.
[1]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Disk_encryption
Because I'm
> Because I'm talking about this [1] and not software based encryption.
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware-based_full_disk_encryption
Shouldn't BIOS take care of that?
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Cheers
Jayesh Badwaik
On 20 November 2015 at 17:04, Mauro Santos wrote:
> On 20-11-2015 17:19, Joan Aymà wrote:
>> Why should not be easier to boot following Disk_Encryption on the wiki[1]?
>>
>> Regards.
>>
>> [1]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Disk_encryption
>
> Because I'm talking about this [1] and not softwa
On 20-11-2015 17:19, Joan Aymà wrote:
> Why should not be easier to boot following Disk_Encryption on the wiki[1]?
>
> Regards.
>
> [1]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Disk_encryption
Because I'm talking about this [1] and not software based encryption.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Har
Why should not be easier to boot following Disk_Encryption on the wiki[1]?
Regards.
[1]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Disk_encryption
El 20/11/15 a les 15:08, Mauro Santos ha escrit:
> On 20-11-2015 12:59, Bennett Piater wrote:
>>
>> I'm afraid I can't help you, but now I'm curious as to w
On 20-11-2015 12:59, Bennett Piater wrote:
>
> I'm afraid I can't help you, but now I'm curious as to why you would
> want to do that :)
For the specific case of self encrypting disks.
When you turn the system on the disk will present what is called a
shadow mbr, where a pre boot authentication
> I've been searching if rerunning the bootloader from an initramfs is
> possible but my searches have come up empty.
>
> Anyone here knows how to do it or if it is possible? I would be happy if
> someone could provide me with some pointers.
I'm afraid I can't help you, but now I'm curious as to
I've been searching if rerunning the bootloader from an initramfs is
possible but my searches have come up empty.
Anyone here knows how to do it or if it is possible? I would be happy if
someone could provide me with some pointers.
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Mauro Santos
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