What is this "life" thing? Is it part of base.tgz? It sounds as if some of us may not have it, so maybe it is in ports?
On 11/23/08, Marco Peereboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 07:39:37PM +0100, vincent wrote: >> Following this old thread (Feb 08) >> http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=120345491121853&w=2 , >> I'm wondering what's the status of booting with root filesystem in >> softraid in 4.4 or in -current. It was said by Marco Peereboom in the >> same thread that this was planned. > > And it is still planned. The folks involved have that thing called life > in the way. > >> >> I wanted to test new softraid crypto of OpenBSD for full disk >> encryption, but I'm not able to find anything on using initial ramdisks >> like Linux can do to mount the encrypted root. Is it possible to get the >> softraid online before mounting the root filesystem, or remount it over >> then? With linux I do this with an USB drive, and I hope I can do it >> with PXE for OpenBSD. > > You can't find anything because it isn't there yet. > >> >> >> Also, just a few questions about the crypto softraid: what's the >> encryption method used by default? XTS+AES? Can it be changed? Are there >> others? Is it possible to keep the keys out of the drive, like Linux' >> loop-aes can do, or do they have to stay, like dm-crypt? > > AES XTS is the algorithm and no it can't and won't be changeable. > > The keys are on the drive but are encrypted and are therefore > unrecoverable without the password. At some point we will add more > functionality to change password and some other things. > > FWIW, OpenBSD is not "like" Linux and never strives to be. > > -- http://www.glumbert.com/media/shift http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk "This officer's men seem to follow him merely out of idle curiosity." -- Sandhurst officer cadet evaluation. "Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse - external or internal - is akin to trying to install sprinklers in a fireworks factory where smoking on the job is permitted." -- Gene Spafford learn french: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1G-3laJJP0&feature=related
