[Pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#477203: Bug#477203: cryptsetup: LUKS passphrase sometimes in cleartext

[Jonas Meurer]

On 21/04/2008 Daniel Blaschke wrote:
> I have an encrypted /home partition and usplash is installed. Whenever I'm
> not quick enough entering the LUKS passphrase, usplash times out and in
> order to continue the boot process I need to switch to tty 8 where I can
> enter the passphrase. And here's the security problem: As I type, the
> passphrase appears as cleartext on the screen...

Hello Daniel,

Could you try whether cryptsetup 1.0.6-2 fixes the bug? The way how the
initramfs prompts for the passphrase has been changes in 1.0.6-2, an
external binary called askpass has been introduces by David Härdeman and
is used now for passphrase retrieval.

We hope that askpass fixes the issue you described here.

greetings,
 jonas