Bug 1390368 - Feature Request - Fedora LUKS Security Enhancement
Summary: Feature Request - Fedora LUKS Security Enhancement
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: luks-tools
Version: 26
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Orphan Owner
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-10-31 20:15 UTC by Timothy M. Butterworth
Modified: 2018-05-29 11:33 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-05-29 11:33:40 UTC
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Description Timothy M. Butterworth 2016-10-31 20:15:24 UTC
LUKS disk encryption security enhancement.

1. Please implement the LUKS patch that removes LUKS keys after 10 unsuccessful attempts to decrypt.

2. Please implement a mechanism with the LUKS patch that also destroys the UEFI Vars  /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/ file.

3. Please implement a mechanism to destroy the GPT to remove all partition information.

Implementing this would require a stolen system to have to be reloaded from scratch after 10 unsuccessful attempts to decrypt LUKS encrypted drives. This would be a great security enhancement for Mobile devices and eventually Enterprise Security.

It would not protect against the drive being removed and mounted into a different system for a brute force attack.

It would help stop common criminals.

Comment 1 Martin Kolman 2016-11-01 10:14:42 UTC
I think this would have to be implemented in LUKS itself, not in Anaconda.

Comment 2 Fedora End Of Life 2017-02-28 10:32:22 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 26 development cycle.
Changing version to '26'.

Comment 3 Fedora End Of Life 2018-05-03 08:22:12 UTC
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Comment 4 Fedora End Of Life 2018-05-29 11:33:40 UTC
Fedora 26 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2018-05-29. Fedora 26
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