Re: [opensuse-security] LUKS and its master key
Paco Cruz writes:
>> I found LUKS recently through SUSE Linux 10.3, >> and the other night a read an article in c't 2006/11. PC> Could you post a link to the article you are referring to? Well, the article is in a german printed magazine, so that doesn't really help a lot. [...] >> But I am not really sure, whether I can trust, what I read in that article regarding the master key, >> specifically that the master key can be read from the LUKS volume by the sys admin without any difficulties. PC> This is the part that I don't understand well. PC> Do you have the master key in a file? That's not the point, and that's not my concern, so, no, the master key is not on any (accessible) file. The article says, that the master key can be extracted from a "luksOpen"-ed volume, i.e. from the admin header of the LUKS volume. That's my concern. Kind regards, J. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-security+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-security+help@opensuse.org
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