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Ask HN: How would you implement key escrow for FDE on a Linux workstation?

by walrus01·10y ago·1 comments·view on hn ↗
I'm looking into what it would take to implement key escrow/recovery with full disk encryption on a series of workstation laptops. The laptop software image will be based on Xubuntu 16.04, so basically Linux + xorg + xfce4. The plan is to deploy everything with /home/ as its own encrypted partition.

Ordinary passphrase based FDE isn't sufficient in this case as we need the ability to recover the contents of a company-owned laptop in the event that a person refuses to give up the passphrase and goes rogue, gets fired or for a variety of legal/regulatory reasons. Has anyone implemented something like this for a corporate Linux workstation environment?

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LUKS can have multiple valid keys for an encrypted partition, this might be a starting point?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dm-crypt/Device_encrypt...