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boot.initrd.luks.mitigateDMAAttacks

Unless enabled, encryption keys can be easily recovered by an attacker with physical access to any machine with PCMCIA, ExpressCard, ThunderBolt or FireWire port. More information is available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMA_attack.

This option blacklists FireWire drivers, but doesn't remove them. You can manually load the drivers if you need to use a FireWire device, but don't forget to unload them!

Type

boolean

Default

true

Declared