No shit Sherlock, that's the whole point! The OS doesn't boot until you type in your passphrase, plug in your USB fob, etc. and allow it to read the key. Like, Duh! You know, you really ought to stop smoking crack.
----------------------Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--------------------------- + ^ + :NSA got $20Bil/year |Passwords are like underwear. You don't /|\ \|/ :and didn't stop 9-11|share them, you don't hang them on your/\|/\ <--*-->:Instead of rewarding|monitor, or under your keyboard, you \/|\/ /|\ :their failures, we |don't email them, or put them on a web \|/ + v + :should get refunds! |site, and you must change them very often. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sunder.net ------------ On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Jim Choate wrote: > On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, Sunder wrote: > > > At least with a unixish OS you can mount your crypto file systems up at > > boot time before the OS really starts up (before the system goes to > > multi-user mode for example (at the end of /etc/rc1.d and before the > > rc2.d init starts.) > > Which is a blind path since those files -must- be unencrypted and if they > do mount the disk they have to have access to the key to unencrypt the fs > hence you're in the same boat as with Winblows.
