{"id":1179888,"date":"2023-09-07T12:56:27","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T16:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1179888"},"modified":"2023-09-07T12:56:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T16:56:27","slug":"ubuntu-to-add-tpm-backed-full-disk-encryption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1179888","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu to add TPM-backed full-disk encryption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ubuntu blog has <a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntu.com\/blog\/tpm-backed-full-disk-encryption-is-coming-to-ubuntu\">a<br \/>\ndetailed article<\/a> on plans to add full-disk encryption, with the key<br \/>\nstored in the system&#8217;s trusted platform module (TPM), to the desktop<br \/>\ndistribution.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq\"><p>\n\tIn order to deliver these benefits, the implementation of<br \/>\n\tTPM-backed FDE relies on two main design principles. First, it<br \/>\n\tseals the FDE secret key to the full EFI state, including the<br \/>\n\tkernel command line. Second, access to the decryption key will only<br \/>\n\tbe permitted if and when the device boots software that has been<br \/>\n\tdefined as authorised to access the confidential data.  This is<br \/>\n\twhen the initrd code will unseal the key in the secure-boot<br \/>\n\tprotected kernel.efi at boot time.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: LWN.net &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/lwn.net\/Articles\/943869\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ubuntu to add TPM-backed full-disk encryption<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ubuntu blog has a detailed article on plans to add full-disk encryption, with the key stored in the system&#8217;s trusted platform module (TPM), to the desktop distribution. In order to deliver these benefits, the implementation of TPM-backed FDE relies &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1179888\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-1179888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1179888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1179888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1179888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1179888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}