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| From | Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.maint.boot |
| Subject | Bug#976112: Overwriting with random data message truncated |
| Date | 2021-01-09 16:30 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <BvolI-SC-7@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | (3 earlier) <Bvo2l-Mo-13@gated-at.bofh.it> <BgBXA-81x-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <Bvoc1-Px-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <BgBXA-81x-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <Bvoc1-Px-1@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
Cross-posted to 2 groups.
Hi,
Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 09, 2021 at 04:02:00PM +0100, Holger Wansing wrote:
> >Hmm, I wonder why the text is truncated at all...
> >
> >The whole text from the template file looks like this:
> >"The installer is now overwriting ${DEVICE} with random data to prevent
> >meta-information leaks from the encrypted volume. This step may be skipped
> >by cancelling this action, albeit at the expense of a slight reduction of the
> >quality of the encryption."
> >
> >So I guess the suggested shortage does not fix the whole problem, and I
> >would not consider changing the template in this situation.
>
> Nod. I've just checked in the text installer and the text there is
> displayed in full. This is something specific to the graphical
> installer. I'm genuinely not sure what's going on here. :-/
How did you reproduce that issue?
Is this specific to partitioning NVMe devices (as can be understood from the OP)?
Holger
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Bug#976112: Overwriting with random data message truncated Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2021-01-06 23:40 +0100
Bug#976112: Overwriting with random data message truncated Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> - 2021-01-09 16:10 +0100
Bug#976112: Overwriting with random data message truncated Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2021-01-09 16:20 +0100
Bug#976112: Overwriting with random data message truncated Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> - 2021-01-09 16:30 +0100
Bug#976112: Overwriting with random data message truncated Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2021-01-09 16:40 +0100
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