Re: [PATCH] DISCUSSION: Jookia's Libreboot+LUKS+LVM FDE patch.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Jookia <address@hidden> skribis:

> So I've come up with the following hack commit that effectively
> stops any sort of dependency management and adds some new targets
> for LVM and LUKS with a keyfile.
>
> Here's my current setup, take note that order of mapped devices
> matter since there's no dependency management:
>
>   (mapped-devices (list (mapped-device
>                           (source "/dev/sda")
>                           (target "hdd")
>                           (type (luks-device-keyfile-mapping
>                                   (local-file "/root/keyfile"))))
>                         (mapped-device
>                           (source "/dev/mapper/hdd")
>                           (target "matrix")
>                           (type lvm-device-mapping))))
>
>   (file-systems (cons (file-system
>                         (device "/dev/mapper/matrix-root")
>                         (title 'device)
>                         (mount-point "/")
>                         (type "ext4"))
>                       %base-file-systems))
>
>   (swap-devices '("/dev/mapper/matrix-swap"))

As you note, and as discussed on IRC, this is not OK because the private
key ends up being stored world-readable in the store.  :-/

Am I missing the part you wanted to discuss?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

PS: I still intend to look at the patch series you sent ;-), just
    prioritizing things that relate to 0.9.1.