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How do I set up a Yubikey as a 2nd factor, in addition to my password, to open my LUKS-encrypted disk on Opensuse? All the information I’ve found so far seem to be geared at Arch Linux and Debian and they require Yubikey-luks, which is not… Continue reading Yubikey as 2nd Factor to open luks-encrypted disk on OpenSuse
I saw that Ubuntu offers hard drive encryption during the installation, I’m guessing that it’s LUKS. Is LUKS really bulletproof from high-resource agencies? Is it possible to be cracked from anyone? While the computer is turned off, of cou… Continue reading Can LUKS be cracked by a government-level agency?
I have a lot of PCs without a TPM installed. Buying TPMs for all of them is not an option, but I still want to do encryption on them.
From what I’ve studied so far, the entire system/boot partition can be encrypted. The bootloader (or the … Continue reading Can I secure the bootloader without a TPM?
One assignement of my teacher is driving me crazy because I don’t think I’m that far from the solution but I still can’t get it so I hope someone will be able to help me figure it out.
Assignment
The assignment in short is as follow : crea… Continue reading How to find the encrypted master key in LUKS header
I have encrypted a hardsik with a 12 charachter random alphanumeric passwrod using LUKS encryption on Ubuntu 18.04 on a 2.5" SATA disk partitioned with ext4.
I’m wondering how secure is such scheme?
In other words, provided that the c… Continue reading How secure is LUKS encryption?
I am currently looking out for a disk / file-system encryption solution, on Linux, which would not require a password at every reboot instance.
While this will not prevent data theft if the entire system is snitched, it should at least en… Continue reading Disk / Volume encryption without password prompt at boot [migrated]
Not sure if this kind of review/validation question is allowed – please delete if it isn’t.
Like many before, I’m looking for ways to do cloud backup in a way where I trust that I’m still the only one with access to the information.
Contex… Continue reading Backing-up to an untrusted cloud
I have a specific use case in which there are multiple users and I only need the Home folder for each encrypted using something like eCryptfs – https://www.howtogeek.com/116032/how-to-encrypt-your-home-folder-after-installing-ubuntu/ – but… Continue reading How to encrypt /home directories in Ubuntu 20.04 with an alternative to eCryptfs?
I would need some advice on LUKS2 cryptsetup (confidentiality + integrity).
I would like to include crypsetup integrity feature with
–cipher aes-gcm-random –integrity aead
on xfs formatted Raid. Few tests with fio show a big impact on pe… Continue reading LUKS2 confidentiality+integrity
Since I cannot receive email directly from my home server, I need an external device to receive messages for me and deliver them to my MTA via another port or via VPN. Instead of renting a VPS just for this, I was thinking about purchasing… Continue reading Full disk encryption and remote unlocking a mail server in the hand of a possible attacker, what could go wrong?