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<b>From: </b>"Eric Demer via ubuntu-users" <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a>><br>
<b>Date:</b> Wednesday, 26 May 2021 at 07:00:43<br>
<b>To: </b>"ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc: </b>"Eric Demer" <<a href="mailto:demer@mailbox.org">demer@mailbox.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> verifying that disk is encrypted</div>
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<div class="default-style" style="">I successfully re-installed Ubuntu with the built-in encryption on, and now I need
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<div class="default-style" style="">to do _something like_ letting my employer verify that I do have it encrypted.
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<div class="default-style" style="">I say "something like" because, _for built-in encryption_,
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<div class="default-style" style="">submitting a screenshot would be enough. <br>
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<div class="default-style" style="">However, I have not found any way of </div>
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<div class="default-style" style="">(a) taking a screenshot of the "Please unlock disk" screen
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<div class="default-style" style="">(b) bringing up anything else showing that the built-in encryption is enabled
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<div class="default-style" style="">. <br>
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<div class="default-style" style="">It makes some sense to me that (a) might intentionally be impossible or hard,
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<div class="default-style" style="">but I'm quite surprised that I haven't found a way of doing (b).
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<div class="default-style" style="">Do you know how to do either of those? <br>
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<div class="default-style" style="">(I _have_ considered just taking a _photo_ of the "Please unlock disk" screen,
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<div class="default-style" style="">and might end up just doing that, but that alternative would require
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<div class="default-style" style="">specific approval which it would probably take some time to get.)
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<div class="default-style" style="">Thankyou, <br>
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<div class="default-style" style="">Eric Demer <br>
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<div style="direction: ltr;">Hi, Iām not surprised.š,</div>
<div style="direction: ltr;">Otherwise it would mean that non-essential software is included into the initrd, what is considered a security risk by itself.</div>
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