encrypted home directory / wrapped-passphrase

[C de-Avillez]

On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:37:55 +1000
Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> but the ORIGINAL home directory is still a
> piece of cake to get into - as I found out :-( . Look here:
> 
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Removing_System_Encryption

Sorry, I am somewhat lost here. The link talks about "an encrypted root
filesystem or other filesystem you cannot umount while booted into your
operating system", and how to "remove system encryption". Nobody is
talking, there, about *bypassing* encryption. So, yes, it is easy to
get access to your home directory after taking out encryption -- this
is the whole idea of the write-up.

BTW, it is a common mistake (and I myself have also gotten hit by it)
to forget about encrypting backups. Your hardrive is encrypted (or your
home directory, or some other FS) with ecryptfs or equivalent. Good.
But copies to somewhere else will be encrypted (or not) depending if
ecryptfs is active (or not) on this other medium.

Cheers,

..C..
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