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It doesn't need to, if your disk supports OPAL2 - just set the password in BIOS and encrypt the drive, it's fully transparent to the OS and as a bonus, there's
by d3Xt3r 11mo ago
It doesn't need to, if your disk supports OPAL2 - just set the password in BIOS and encrypt the drive, it's fully transparent to the OS and as a bonus, there's virtually no performance hit unlike software-based encryption like LUKS.
- udev4096 11mo agoThe question is, does the stock SSD support OPAL2?
- surajrmal 11mo agoLuks can use hardware offload description via opal if configured accordingly. You are also at the vendors firmware implementation in terms of security.
- Gigachad 11mo agoYou are relying on every single ssd to have a secure implementation of encryption which is just never going to be true. I’m not familiar with how the process works, but if you are setting the password somewhere, it’s exposed to being extracted. You want the password to be something you type in on boot.
- d3Xt3r 11mo agoUnless your threat model includes state-sponsored attacks, the encryption is good enough for most people, especially considering its primary use-case (gaming). And there's nothing stopping you from using a secondary secure container if you do intend to store that level of sensitive data (eg: VeraCrypt volume for plausible deniability). Also, the password isn't stored anywhere, you get prompted by the BIOS upon every boot to unlock the drive.