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Well I remember getting completely stuck at one part and the cause was my samsung SSD's funny behavior in the "locked" state.

I had to set some kind of kernel flag or something (sorry, it's been years) to get it to ignore the drive until I unlocked it, as there was some kind of tight-loop where it would just keep trying to connect infinitely and not progress/fail/timeout.

I've been meaning to get back into linux again but it's going to be on a pristine/new machine.



You're definitely overcomplicating it. Security that's too hard to make use of isn't really accomplishing anything.


Well the work is in setting it up. Once it's working you just enter a password. I'm sure hardware FDE support in linux has come a long way since I last tried.


There shouldn't be that level of work required to set it up. The tools are lacking if it's not just a couple of commands or toggles to get a fully encrypted disk with a secure boot chain.




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