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  • Committer: Björn Påhlsson
  • Date: 2008-09-03 21:18:05 UTC
  • mto: (237.7.1 mandos) (24.1.154 mandos)
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 153.
  • Revision ID: belorn@braxen-20080903211805-2evlp1ooipx0rr8f
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 
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<!DOCTYPE para PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
 
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        "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd">
 
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<para>
 
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  This is part of the Mandos system for allowing computers to have
 
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  encrypted root file systems and at the same time be capable of
 
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  remote and/or unattended reboots.  The computers run a small client
 
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  program in the initial <acronym>RAM</acronym> disk environment which
 
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  will communicate with a server over a network.  The clients are
 
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  identified by the server using a OpenPGP key; each client has one
 
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  unique to it.  The server sends the clients an encrypted password.
 
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  The encrypted password is decrypted by the clients using the same
 
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  OpenPGP key, and the password is then used to unlock the root file
 
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  system, whereupon the computers can continue booting normally.
 
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</para>