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Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli, 04/19/2023 11:16 PM
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| 1 | 1 | Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli | h1. GRUBCrypt |
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| 3 | 2 | Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli | h2. Introduction |
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| 5 | 3 | Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli | Before we need to upstream in grub the ability to open a partition with an external key to be able to use other distributions than Trisquel. |
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| 7 | 3 | Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli | This was because distributions like Ubuntu and Trisquel had patches, that probably came from the "grub crypt project":http://grub.johnlane.ie/ that enabled such functionality. |
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| 9 | 3 | Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli | The FSF relied on such patches in their infrastructure to ensure that the rootfs of the vm remain encrypted. |
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| 11 | 3 | Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli | However now not only the patches are upstream, but the FSF also don't depend on them anymore. |