wireguard-initramfs
Use dropbear over wireguard. (by r-pufky)
initramfs-tools-tailscale
Tailscale enabled initramfs (by mabels)
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4.7 | 2.6 | |
4 months ago | 9 months ago | |
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The Unlicense | Apache License 2.0 |
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wireguard-initramfs
Posts with mentions or reviews of wireguard-initramfs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-05.
- How to avoid typing password of LUKS encrypted server every boot?
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Fedora Workstation Aiming To Improve Encryption, Possibly Encrypted Disk By Default In The Future
Some other interesting things are providing keys over the network, or leveraging Wireguard and SSH to remotely unlock.
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Encrypt Raspberry Pi?
For vulnerabilities: even if dropbear was vulnerable in some way, itโs running in a pre-boot initramfs with a restricted shell which can be locked down even further to prevent escalation. To add another layer of security, you can run Wireguard in initramfs and have dropbear configured to be accessible from only the vpn network: https://github.com/r-pufky/wireguard-initramfs
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I self host on my desktop, but it likes to crash. Any advice on remotely resetting a frozen system?
Once you manage to reset the system, wireguard-initramfs should work if you need to SSH into it from outside the LAN, though the project is only currently supported on Debian. Within the LAN, dropbear in your initramfs should be enough.
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How can I encrypt the whole disk on cloud hosts to prevent them from seeing my data in backups/snapshots?
There are other initramfs packages available that expand features such as wireguard capability: https://github.com/r-pufky/wireguard-initramfs
- Connect to remote encrypted SSH Client
- r-pufky/wireguard-initramfs - Enables wireguard networking during kernel boot, before encrypted partitions are mounted. Combined with dropbear this can enable FULLY ENCRYPTED remote booting without storing key material or exposing ports on the remote network.
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wireguard-initramfs for debian bullseye (e.g. dropbear over wireguard) [working]
FYI, this is now the case. 2021-07-04
Just posted the first rev of wireguard-initramfs for debian bullseye.
initramfs-tools-tailscale
Posts with mentions or reviews of initramfs-tools-tailscale.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-25.
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Connect to remote encrypted SSH Client
Found also this guys git who starts tailscale in initramfs https://github.com/mabels/initramfs-tools-tailscale. Will take a look soon
What are some alternatives?
When comparing wireguard-initramfs and initramfs-tools-tailscale you can also consider the following projects:
dracut-sshd - Provide SSH access to initramfs early user space on Fedora and other systems that use Dracut
pi-encrypted-boot-ssh - ๐ Raspberry Pi Encrypted Boot with Remote SSH
ramroot - Load root file system to ram during boot.
yubikey-full-disk-encryption - Use YubiKey to unlock a LUKS partition
dracut - dracut the event driven initramfs infrastructure
wireguard-install - WireGuard road warrior installer for Ubuntu, Debian, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, CentOS and Fedora