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/
--
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
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