Re: Input needed regarding disk encryption/decryption

2016-10-06 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 06.10.2016 um 07:04 schrieb John Darrington: > I understood something different by "while disk encryption". I thought it > meant > encrypting the whole disk (partition table and all) not just the partitions > on it. I doubt this is possible without BIOS/UEFI support. And I'm not aware of any

Re: Input needed regarding disk encryption/decryption

2016-10-06 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
dian_ce...@zoho.com writes: > I am also pondering how to handle RAID and LVM at this time since all of > this is all fairly closely related, though I'm not going to make any claims of > responsibility for implementing anything other than disk encryption, and even > that isn't promised. > >

Re: Input needed regarding disk encryption/decryption

2016-10-06 Thread dian_cecht
On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 07:04:14AM +0200, John Darrington wrote: > I understood something different by "while disk encryption". I thought it > meant > encrypting the whole disk (partition table and all) not just the partitions > on it. I am looking at whole disk encryption as well as other opti

Re: Input needed regarding disk encryption/decryption

2016-10-05 Thread John Darrington
I understood something different by "while disk encryption". I thought it meant encrypting the whole disk (partition table and all) not just the partitions on it. J' On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 07:56:23PM -0700, dian_ce...@zoho.com wrote: Hello, So apparently I've accidentilly

Input needed regarding disk encryption/decryption

2016-10-05 Thread dian_cecht
Hello, So apparently I've accidentilly volunteered to try and implement whole disk encryption for GuixSD, and for the last few days I've been pondering what all I'd need to handle for this. While the obvious low-hanging fruit is to simply support mounting LUKS devices (or anything under /dev/