Hello,

Suppose you have a PC with 2 separate SSDs. One is an install of Windows 11. The other is an install of a Linux distro, encrypted at time of installation (for example, with LUKS). Obviously you would only boot into one or the other at a time.

So a dual-boot, but each boot portion is on its own SSD (not sure if this matters, but its a relevant scenario).

Can the Windows 11 portion somehow get through the Linux encryption and access / read data on the Linux portion?

Sorry if this is a stupid or obvious question.

      • mindlight@lemm.ee
        5·
        8 months ago

        Not even if Windows and Linux were on different partitions on the same disk would Windows be able to access the files on the Linux partition without the key.

        Just pointing out that s separate disks doesn’t change anything. The data, in its encrypted form, will be inaccessible without the decryption key.

  • Scolding0513@sh.itjust.works
    51·
    8 months ago

    that would be pretty bad if it could. but no, there are no known ways to break luks encryption afaik.

    never have a Windows partition on the same machine as an unencrypted ext4 partition/drive!! or any other unencrypted drive for that matter. Windows is fully capable of accessing them and sending data about your personal files back to Microdick HQ

  • Lemongrab@lemmy.one
    4·
    8 months ago

    It can access the encrypted data and any unencrypted startup software that hands things off to the OS after decryption.