From: elaexuotee@wilsonb.com
To: cmmarusich@gmail.com
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Detached LUKS header
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 05:27:01 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5dcb1595.3eflNbJ9M+SLmeCx%elaexuotee@wilsonb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o8xh1z5v.fsf@gmail.com>
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Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure. On your non-Guix setup, the crypttab exists in the
> initrd, right? And that initrd exists in the /boot directory on the
> external drive, right?
Yes. Specifically, I am using dracut to generate the initrd and I believe it is
the crypt module that copies crypttab into the cpio. Similary, dracut.conf
ensures the initrd also contains the luks header file.
> Have you looked into how you can customize the initrd in Guix?
Beautiful. That URL you shared gives me a good starting place. Thank you.
> If you figure out a configuration that works, please do share it!
I sure will! Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts.
> elaexuotee@wilsonb.com writes:
>
> > Anyway, is there a straightforward way to configure a mapping device for LUKS
> > with a detached header? Otherwise, what's the best way to go about passing
> > command line options to the initrd cryptsetup call?
> >
> > For a little context, I like my drive to look just like random data to a third
> > party; however, the precence of a LUKS header pretty much defeats plausible
> > deniability of hosting encrypted data. Thus, detached headers.
> >
> > To that end, with my current non-guix setup, I have /boot and grub sitting on
> > an external drive, with dracut shoving the LUKS header in the initrd. Then
> > crypttab references said header, so the initrd cryptsetup call Just Works TM.
>
> I'm not sure. On your non-Guix setup, the crypttab exists in the
> initrd, right? And that initrd exists in the /boot directory on the
> external drive, right?
>
> Have you looked into how you can customize the initrd in Guix? It's
> described in the "Initial RAM Disk" section of the manual:
>
> https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Initial-RAM-Disk.html#Initial-RAM-Disk
>
> If I understand your non-Guix configuration right, it sounds like you
> put the initrd on the external drive. Guix normally installs the initrd
> into the store, and then adds to the Grub configuration file a reference
> to the initrd in the store, like this:
>
> menuentry "GNU with Linux-Libre 5.1.2 (#1, 2019-09-13 22:12)" {
> search --label --set root
> linux /gnu/store/mmnl20fg05w8gzzsp4d8dvagmdn1vjil-linux-libre-5.1.2/bzImage --root=root --system=/var/guix/profiles/system-1-link --load=/var/guix/profiles/system-1-link/boot quiet
> initrd /gnu/store/af8h57i9h77r5q9djvviyy4s2gfbnwq8-raw-initrd/initrd.cpio.gz
> }
>
> So, it might be a little tricky to convince Guix to do the right thing
> for your use case. Also, I think Grub has the ability to read LUKS
> volumes, but I'm not sure how to configure it.
>
> If you figure out a configuration that works, please do share it!
> Hopefully something in my email is helpful to you.
>
> --
> Chris
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-12 20:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-09 3:27 Detached LUKS header elaexuotee
2019-11-12 4:44 ` Chris Marusich
2019-11-12 20:27 ` elaexuotee [this message]
[not found] ` <86h83dqb88.fsf@dismail.de>
2019-11-12 20:08 ` elaexuotee
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