Re:Brilliant Hardware in the Valley of the Software Slump
by yellowapple on Saturday June 13, 2020 @02:57AM
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Yeah, I feel like as soon as Haiku has support for encrypted partitions it'll be my daily driver (even if it's a performance hit, I'll take that over my data being in the clear should someone snag my laptop). Implementing support for it is something I'd love to try my hand at as soon as I can figure out how I'd go about doing so (namely: how to make an encrypted partition look like a normal partition to the overall system while still providing some mechanism to prompt for a passphrase or key).
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Re:Brilliant Hardware in the Valley of the Software Slump
by waddlesplash on Saturday June 13, 2020 @02:33PM
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Haiku already has support for encrypted partitions via "DriveEncryption" ... but no support for encrypted boot drives, yet, indeed.
Re:Brilliant Hardware in the Valley of the Software Slump
by yellowapple on Saturday June 13, 2020 @07:07PM
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Whoa! How long has that been around?
Even without boot partition support, if Haiku's able to keep my user files on a DriveEncryption'd partition and automatically decrypt it on boot (i.e. with a password prompt at some point in the boot process or immediately after), then that's good enough for me.
Re:Brilliant Hardware in the Valley of the Software Slump
by waddlesplash on Sunday June 14, 2020 @12:56AM
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I think DriveEncryption needs a few tweaks now that Beta2 is out to work again, but it's been around for quite a long time. It was made by one of the foremost kernel developers who certainly knew what he was doing. I think it's based on TrueCrypt, though he may have updated it to VeraCrypt at some point...
Here's the GitHub, anyway: https://github.com/axeld/driveencryption
Re:Brilliant Hardware in the Valley of the Software Slump
by yellowapple on Sunday June 14, 2020 @04:09AM
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Definitely looks interesting, and the advertised support for decrypt-on-login is exactly what I'd need. Doesn't look like it's working on x86-64; I wonder how hard that'd be to fix...
Whatever the case, thanks! I left enough room on my disk to add an encrypted partition later (and move the stuff currently in ~ over to it), so hopefully I can get up and running with this.
Re:Brilliant Hardware in the Valley of the Software Slump
by waddlesplash on Monday June 15, 2020 @09:47AM
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Probably not that hard to fix, there are a few potential issues that come to mind but all have simple solutions, if you know where to look (and if you don't, as in Freenode#haiku.)