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Type: Feature

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issue 797141

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issue 691646
issue 761911
issue 721552
issue 800138



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investigate replacing dm-crypt overlay for /var with directory encryption

Project Member Reported by gwendal@chromium.org, Oct 11 2017

Issue description

Instead of having dm-crypt over a file-backed loopback device, use directory encryption.
We would avoid the over provisioning issue and simplify the whole stack
[currently https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1oAa_N5VFHrXmzo0hTBGogvdbQqYQ5dlfgJfoIJW5GEM/edit]

to 
https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/drawings/d/1GkbaPfvyP5ccZq43CMlrIwnT05e4PhiUwmfNtWZIOdg/edit?usp=sharing

As we did for home ext4 crypto, the same key used by dm-crypt can be reused for these directory.

Migration - if any - would happen at boot time.

[Sonny's idea]
 

Comment 1 by vapier@chromium.org, Oct 11 2017

Components: Security
if we're all-in on ext4 encryption, then this sounds fine.  migration will be easier too because it's a system key we don't have to wait for user input ...
I'm all for simplifying the system.
Blocking: 761911
Blocking: 721552
Blocking: 800138
Blocking: 691646
Owner: sarthakkukreti@chromium.org
Status: Started (was: Untriaged)
Blockedon: 797141

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