Hello everbody,

I'm from FreeBSD and I wanted to give OpenBSD a (new) try.

I would like to have a full disk encryption (as I've seen it's possible now
with OpenBSD 5.5) and use a smart card to decrypt the volumes at
boot, instead of having to type a password, which seems "less secure".

I read a lot of articles to see how it works using bioctl but none are
talking about using a smart card as a keydisk, only USB drive.

If I understood correctly, when using "bioctl -k /path/of/RAID/keydisk",
the key is created automatically and the encrypted RAID volume is
associated to that "USB RAID partition keydisk". So the system can now
boot only if the BIOS/UEFI finds that particular USB RAID partition.

My questions are:

1) How to do the same thing using a Smart Card instead of a USB drive?

2) Is it possible to "copy" the image of the USB key disk to a Smart Card
(or inversely) to be able to boot using either the USB or the Smart Card?

3) If the Smart card is used as a key disk to boot the system. Is it
possible to configure that same smart card to access my home computer
using SSH? (As if it was ONLY possible to SSH to my computer using that
smartcard).

Thank you very much for your help, I'm pretty new with those kind of
things.

Julien M

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