On Wed, Jul 27, 2022, at 1:17 PM, Milan Broz wrote:
> On 27/07/2022 17:52, Chris Murphy wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 27, 2022, at 11:11 AM, Chris Adams wrote:
>>> Once upon a time, Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> said:
>>>> My understanding is that Windows preloads are now blank-encrypted.
>>>> That is, there's a BitLocker volume wrapping the filesystem, even with
>>>> encryption turned off. It makes encrypting the disk later
>>>> significantly easier (it doesn't have to do filesystem resizing and
>>>> reallocation games).
>>>
>>> Huh, okay.  It seems cryptsetup can't open it, but dislocker can.
>> 
>> You can do something like
>> 
>> dd if=/dev/nvme0n1p5 skip=1024000 count=2048 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C
>> 
>> And see if that 1MiB range looks like ciphertext (garbage) or plaintext. I 
>> wouldn't be surprised if it's encrypted, and the encryption key itself isn't 
>> wrapped, it's just exposed in the Bitlocker metadata in a way dislocker can 
>> discover and cryptsetup can't (yet) - but I'm speculating.
>> 
>> 
>>> But this does mean that doing anything in anaconda based on detection of
>>> BitLocker being present should consider that...
>> 
>> Either libblkid or cryptsetup would need to learn how to differentiate 
>> between the two kinds of Bitlocker volumes, in order for anaconda to have a 
>> chance of treating them differently. I'm not sure what the consideration 
>> would be though.
>> 
>
> If you report this as a bug for cryptsetup (with description how to 
> create such Bitlocker volume), we can check how to fix it.
>
> Otherwise nothing happens :-)

Yeah that's what I meant by "(yet)" :D



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Chris Murphy
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