On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 04:22:18PM -0400, Robert Simmons wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 5:31 AM, Alaksiej Carniajeu <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > It's not possible. But, you could have your /boot on a bootable
> > usbstick, together with some keyfiles, and start from it. From
> > security point of view, it is even better, than the whole drive
> > encryption TrueCrypt offers, because the former relies on password
> > only.
> 
> This is what I thought.  Now, if I wanted to add this functionality, I
> would need to modify:
> /head/sys/boot/i386/pmbr/pmbr.s
> and
> /head/sys/boot/i386/gptboot/gptboot.c

I'd leave pmbr.s alone, it is definiately too early to play with
decryption. You need to modify gptboot and loader for UFS or gptzfsboot
and zfsloader for ZFS.

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