Unattended reboots with encrypted disks
Do you run a small home server or NAS holding your precious photos and sensitive documents? If so, I suppose the drives are encrypted, right? But then… can you reboot the machine without manually entering a passphrase before being able to access your files again? If you answered yes to the questions above-which is common for convenience-that implies the encryption keys live in the machine which...
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A blog post introducing ZKeys, a service that stores half of disk encryption passphrases off-site so client machines can perform unattended, automatic reboots while keeping data protected. Someone would visit to learn how ZKeys enables passwordless reboots for encrypted home servers or NAS devices and to find links to the open-source client and setup guidance.
- Service stores half the passphrase; client holds the other half
- Clients send keepalive pings to keep keys unlocked
- Open-source Rust client with FreeBSD and Fedora integrations
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