Full Disk Encryption on Fedora with TPM2

(apalrd.net)

10 points | by speckx 2 days ago

3 comments

  • lakeviewterrace 7 minutes ago
    Extraordinary how Linux continues to be 20 years behind Microsoft and Apple when it comes to FDE. This is a hilariously stupid level of complexity for something that should have a universal solution across distros by now.

    This is literally a one click process in Windows (plus a couple shell commands to enable TPM+PIN).

    • Avamander 1 minute ago
      Fairly sure that if the correct GPOs are set, there is no need for any shell commands needed for a TPM PIN enrollment.

      Windows and macOS both can do FDE with good UI/UX compared to Linux.

  • Velocifyer 43 minutes ago
  • phoronixrly 23 minutes ago
    This is still vulnerable to evil maid. You need to be able to attest the system before you enter the PIN.
    • phoronixrly 17 minutes ago
      tpm2totp used to do this, eliminating the need to divulge the secret used to unlock the TPM, I now see that it has not seen a commit in 2 years.

      I also hear mjg59 is looking into encrypted swap hibernation support, so there's a slim chance there will be some development on the system-attestation front.