http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=606320 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=606320#c0 Summary: Improving Encrypted drives, Bug 6 (Fully encrypted installation) Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.3 Version: Factory Platform: All OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Enhancement Priority: P5 - None Component: Installation AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: iridis.p@gmail.com QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.375.38 Safari/533.4 The use of encrypted partitions during install are affected by Bug #606308 but beyond the correction of the bug, there is a chance to improve as well, allowing to install with an encrypted / Other distros already allow this by setting a separate /boot unencrypted, if there is other methods, I don't know them. In addition, it is possible to verify the signature of the files in /boot to detect malicious modification or corruption (just like with aide), and automatically replace/repair from a backup. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Try to install using an encrypted / -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.