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Re: Possible for full-disk encryption to encrypt /boot as well?

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On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 12:44 PM, Pascal Hambourg
<pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote:

> Why do you want an encrypted /boot ? It does not usually contain any
> sensitive information. Encrypted /boot is not tamper-proof unless extra
> steps are taken to protect the first stage boot such as booting from
> write-protected, authenticated or removable media.

Thanks for your reply. I am working for an organization which requires
computers to be full disk encrypted. They support Windows, but if I
want to run Linux, I'm on my own. So to be precise I need something
which is strictly comparable to whatever is provided by Symantec full
disk encryption for Windows. If I can achieve that, I'll be in
business.

It may be true that encrypted /boot is not really relevant, but I
don't want to try to argue with tech support staff that a system with
unencrypted /boot is close enough. I feel like it needs to be all or
nothing in order for me to press this issue with them.

Thank you very much for your comments, and all the best.
Robert Dodier

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Possible for full-disk encryption to encrypt /boot as well? Robert Dodier <robert.dodier@gmail.com> - 2018-05-25 21:00 +0200
  Re: Possible for full-disk encryption to encrypt /boot as well? Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-05-25 21:50 +0200
    Re: Possible for full-disk encryption to encrypt /boot as well? Robert Dodier <robert.dodier@gmail.com> - 2018-05-26 02:40 +0200
      Re: Possible for full-disk encryption to encrypt /boot as well? Abdullah Ramazanoğlu <ar018@yahoo.com> - 2018-05-26 03:20 +0200
      Re: Possible for full-disk encryption to encrypt /boot as well? Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-05-26 10:20 +0200
        Re: Possible for full-disk encryption to encrypt /boot as well? Robert Dodier <robert.dodier@gmail.com> - 2018-05-26 18:00 +0200
          Re: Possible for full-disk encryption to encrypt /boot as well? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-05-26 19:00 +0200
            Re: Possible for full-disk encryption to encrypt /boot as well? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-05-26 21:10 +0200
  Re: Possible for full-disk encryption to encrypt /boot as well? Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2018-05-25 22:00 +0200
  Re: Possible for full-disk encryption to encrypt /boot as well? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-05-27 02:30 +0200
    Re: Possible for full-disk encryption to encrypt /boot as well? Paul Johnson <baloo@ursamundi.org> - 2018-05-27 06:20 +0200
      Re: Possible for full-disk encryption to encrypt /boot as well? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-05-27 07:50 +0200
        Re: Possible for full-disk encryption to encrypt /boot as well? Paul Johnson <baloo@ursamundi.org> - 2018-05-27 08:50 +0200
          Re: Possible for full-disk encryption to encrypt /boot as well? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-05-27 19:40 +0200

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