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Why call it full-disk encryption when the EFI partition has to be unencrypted? (programming.dev)

submitted 2 days ago by onlinepersona@programming.dev to c/linux@programming.dev

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Sounds like a misnomer to me.

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[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Apparently its a patched grub2 for opensuse, and systemd boot systems. Makes a binary file that is verified by the TPM , different than just using LUKS encryption.