You do not need the CPU, just its serial number (or the MAC address of
the network card) - and you can easily write that on a piece of paper
and put it in a secure location - or store this information in your
office on an encrypted disk.

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Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 2:06 PM
To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga) discussion mailing-list
Subject: Re: [rhelv5-list] Protect my stolen disk


hmm, yep this could be a problem, if the CPU got burnt for example!


On Jan 19, 2008 2:26 PM, John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:


        Ahmed Kamal wrote:
        > Seems like I could use dm-crypt to do full disk encryption,
with some 
        > hardware parameter (MAC, CPU s/n ... ) as the decryption key.
That would
        > prevent someone from mounting the disk, or even dd'ing it to a
different
        > machine. That's about exactly what I need. 
        > Not sure if dm-crypt supports getting decryption keys from
hardware params
        > though ...
        >
        
        
        Be sure you can read the disk should you need.
        
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