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From: "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@telefonica.net>
To: dm-crypt mail list <dm-crypt@saout.de>
Subject: [dm-crypt] Re: Is crypttab secure to automount a partition?
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 17:57:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0635f77e-306d-f0ab-cabc-d32803136530@telefonica.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA2KLbbt2inBrS0BJF-8vzp_J3hdbaCpzR-XvA+792Kic2CNMA@mail.gmail.com>


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On 22/03/2021 17.06, Christopher de Vidal wrote:
> That's very cool. But I get the impression from your response that there 
> is no way to automount securely? E.g. at least one password entry is 
> always required.

I don't see how... If you get automount working, it has to get/read the 
key from somewhere that is accessible before mounting, and automatically.

Maybe it could be a challenge-response questionnaire to a remote server, 
say an ssh session, and it is the remote server which sends the key. But 
if an attacker is present, he could replace the machine or the ssh 
client with another of his own to obtain and store the key.




-- 
Cheers / Saludos,

		Carlos E. R.
		(from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar)


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  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-22 17:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CAA2KLbZz-GMUrhzdWwsXdU3M7agw7HOV5_eo6dW26joMB4hKtQ@mail.gmail.com>
2021-03-20 23:52 ` [dm-crypt] Re: Is crypttab secure to automount a partition? Carlos E. R.
2021-03-22 16:06   ` Christopher de Vidal
2021-03-22 16:57     ` Carlos E. R. [this message]
2021-03-23  9:52     ` Arno Wagner

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