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axet
26th July 2012, 06:53 AM
currently fedora does not allow you to encrypt whole disk. it will left /boot unencrypted.

here is a patches which allows full disk encryption and allows grub to boot from this partition.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2011-04/msg00148.html

i hope fedora people aslo improve this solution adding passing luks password to the kernel.

here is obivous advantages :

1) preventing compromited kernel images to store your decryption password somehere

2) only 1 partition (/) instead of 2 (/boot, /)

3) efi boot machines with signature check should only check grub! and not the kernel it self (solves fedora kernel signing issue)