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Re:AMD's Firmware TPMs Vulnerable to Hardware Attacks, Defea... by dathinab on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @10:57AM (#35788467)
if Linux full disk encryption would have a more user friendly UX a lot of Linux users would probably use that too

its a very convenient feature

through is not convenient to setup

and a lot of Linux users never trusted it to be secure, i. e. a lot of people expected an attack like this sooner or later

Re:AMD's Firmware TPMs Vulnerable to Hardware Attacks, Defea... by folmar on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @11:59AM (#35789611)
The current state of userfriendly is quite good. In Ubuntu it's just a checkbox in the installer and input a passphrase.
Re:AMD's Firmware TPMs Vulnerable to Hardware Attacks, Defea... by dathinab on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @12:19PM (#35789940)
yes and it does use the TPM and is affected by this attack ;=)

at least the recent ubuntu versions when using the default full disk encryption setup do setup decryption using TPM you still need an additional password as without you would e.g. lose access to your data if you change some hardware, you motherboard brakes or depending on how they set it up you also need the password after kernel upgrades etc.

but the vulnerability allow someone with hardware access to access all your data by booting their code but messing with the TPM in a way where it still measures as if it's was booting your code

Re:AMD's Firmware TPMs Vulnerable to Hardware Attacks, Defea... by Rimintil on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @02:22PM (#35792003)
The passphrase is what makes it a poor user experience. Many people simply need an encrypted disk that you can't boot offline and not the boot-time PIN/passphrase (which Microsoft abandoned as the default in Windows 8, I believe, again due to UX).