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>Typing my passphrase on boot is muscle memory and gives me simple security I can trust. It's not an either-or. You can combine TPM with passwords which makes
by gruez 6mo ago
>Typing my passphrase on boot is muscle memory and gives me simple security I can trust.
It's not an either-or. You can combine TPM with passwords which makes it far more secure than password alone. A TPM can enforce password guessing limits, otherwise a password needs to be absurdly long to be secure against GPU bruteforcing attacks. It also prevents someone from swapping out the bootloader with a backdoored version that steals your passwords.
>Also can recover data without my mainboard.
You're supposed to keep a backup of the encryption key when using TPM, in case it fails.
- kro 6mo agoSounds good - which software supports this? Specifically I'd prefer if it would do a composite key derivation in-time rather than "just a pw prompt but TPM has the full key"
- pregnenolone 6mo ago> It's not an either-or. You can combine TPM with passwords which makes it far more secure than password alone. No. I have already explained it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48133491 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48133491