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Storing keys securely

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Storing keys securely

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Post by cmdic » Wed Apr 11, 2012 3:19 am

Hi,

I was wondering how I can store my keyfiles for my HDDs securely.

The situation:
I have 4 HDDs all of them are encrypted and I really don't want to type in each password for each drive, every time I start my machine.
I haven't added all of them into one LVM-Container, so I have to open each drive separately.

Anyway I was thinking about the following scenario:

I would create keyfiles for each drive and then put the keyfiles into one encrypted tar-archive or maybe something more handy.

And to make sure these files aren't stored in a permanent way I would mount an tmpfs and extract the archive only on that mountpoint/directory, so they are gone, when I umount the tmpfs.

What do you guys think? Would you consider this secure?
Do you have a more handy idea for archving the keyfiles?

Thanks for all advises :)
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Post by ToeiRei » Wed Apr 11, 2012 1:10 pm

you could boot using an USB stick opening those disks for you - pretty much like an initrd
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