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Clevis/Tang ("network-bound disk encryption") is likely better: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/easier-way-manage-disk-decryp...


Clevis/Tang are really cool technologies that enable a new way of doing FDE. I'm surprised they aren't talked about more.

With Clevis you can use Shamir Secret Sharing to divide the FDE key into multiple parts. The parts can them be put in multiple places: the devices TPM, a server that will only reply to devices on the local network (Tang), a hardware token, etc.

If you put one part of the key on the TPM and the other on the Tang server, you now have a device that can be automatically rebooted in a data center without needing to enter an unlock password at boot. But if the device is removed from the data center its contents will be encrypted.

Pretty neat!




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