Re: Using pinentry-curses interactively in Linux boot process fails (SOLVED)

2010-07-28 Thread tux . tsndcb
- Mail Original - De: "Malte Gell" À: "tux tsndcb" Cc: gnupg-users@gnupg.org Envoyé: Vendredi 23 Juillet 2010 21h03:53 GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Berne / Rome / Stockholm / Vienne Objet: Re: Using pinentry-curses interactively in Linux boot process fails (SOLVE

Re: Using pinentry-curses interactively in Linux boot process fails (SOLVED)

2010-07-24 Thread Malte Gell
Hi there, > Besides, holding a GPG encrypted keyfile on unencrypted space to open a > LUKS/dmcrypt encrypted device, opening/decrypting the keyfile in the boot > process by entering the correct passphrase, to finally open the > LUKS/dmcrypt secured device seems broken to me. Can you explain, why

Re: Using pinentry-curses interactively in Linux boot process fails (SOLVED)

2010-07-24 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 23.07.2010, Grant Olson wrote: > Just keep in mind that if you're not encrypting the whole disk, your > sensitive data can leak to /tmp and swap. I'm only bringing this up > because it seems like you've taken some elaborate steps to protect your > data. I second that. Besides, holding a GP

Re: Using pinentry-curses interactively in Linux boot process fails (SOLVED)

2010-07-23 Thread Grant Olson
On 7/23/10 2:52 AM, Malte Gell wrote: > > > Yes and the boot partition is not encrypted, only /home But I solved it. > > Regards > Malte > Just keep in mind that if you're not encrypting the whole disk, your sensitive data can leak to /tmp and swap. I'm only bringing this up because it seems

Re: Using pinentry-curses interactively in Linux boot process fails (SOLVED)

2010-07-23 Thread Malte Gell
tux.tsn...@free.fr wrote > > Yes and the boot partition is not encrypted, only /home But I solved it. > > It was an init script issue. On openSUSE there is an init script > > "earlyxdm" and it has overridden so to say the pinentry-ncurses program. > > I have now edited earlyxdm and have added my

Re: Using pinentry-curses interactively in Linux boot process fails (SOLVED)

2010-07-23 Thread tux . tsndcb
> Yes and the boot partition is not encrypted, only /home But I solved it. It > was an init script issue. On openSUSE there is an init script "earlyxdm" and > it has overridden so to say the pinentry-ncurses program. I have now edited > earlyxdm and have added my own script to Requried-Start, th

Re: Using pinentry-curses interactively in Linux boot process fails (SOLVED)

2010-07-22 Thread Malte Gell
Grant Olson wrote > On 7/22/10 6:13 PM, Malte Gell wrote: > > Hi there! > > > > I have the following setup: a Linux luks encrypted partition. It is > > encrypted with a keyfile, the keyfile itself is GnuPG encrypted and > > stored in /root > > ... > > > When I use these commands after booting,

Re: Using pinentry-curses interactively in Linux boot process fails

2010-07-22 Thread Grant Olson
On 7/22/10 6:13 PM, Malte Gell wrote: > Hi there! > > I have the following setup: a Linux luks encrypted partition. It is encrypted > with a keyfile, the keyfile itself is GnuPG encrypted and stored in /root > ... > > When I use these commands after booting, they do what I want them to do. >

Using pinentry-curses interactively in Linux boot process fails

2010-07-22 Thread Malte Gell
Hi there! I have the following setup: a Linux luks encrypted partition. It is encrypted with a keyfile, the keyfile itself is GnuPG encrypted and stored in /root Now I have a smartcard reader and a OpenPGP card, so I want to decrypt the keyfile, enter the card's PIN and that's it. I wrote a lit