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How to ask for a new passphrase after the passphrase is entered for the first time in a fully encrypted OS?
Given a LUKS encrypted Debian 8.0 that have this partitioning
# lsblk -o name,fstype
NAME FSTYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda iso9660
├─sda1 ...
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GPG encryption with gradual deletion in parallel
Say I have a 100GB file that I want to GPG encrypt on a system with 120GB hard drive memory and a small RAM.
How can I decrypt the file without using an external memory, that is gpg encrypt a file ...
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Is multiple ecryptfs encryption possible?
Is multiple ecryptfs encryption possible?
How to encrypt a folder called level2 with ecryptfs that is inside a ecryptfs mounted folder called level1?
level1 and level2 folder are organized as
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Cannot install loop-aes-utils on debian 8.0
I need to install the package loop-aes-utils on Debian 8.0 to following this Ubuntu tutorial.
It is not in Debian official package however.
Would it be the aespipe package or is it another package?
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Is it necessary to luksClose the luks partition of my USB before unplugging it?
Is there any risk of data loss if I unplug a USB that have a single luks partition that is opened with
cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb1 map
but is not mounted (nor any other partition)?
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How to set a machine specific encryption to allow only one machine to decrypt data
Security is highered if only one machine can do the decryption.
How would you suggest to allow only one computer to be able to decrypt an LUKS partition?
I would simply need to get a set of variable ...
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How to repair corrupted directory in LUKS filesystem?
I have lost certain data for unknown reason on a LUKS encrypted partition.
Some folders are working properly whereas for some others I have an output like this:
# ls foldername
┐╣╧▒ⁿ£─{.]=? à╝ö┐?░...
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Why does “systemctl start” ask for disk encryption password?
I'm installing Fedora 24 from scratch and writing it up at https://github.com/barrycarter/bcapps/blob/master/FEDORA/README
I've reinstalled many many times (and even tried CentOS 7 but gave up on it),...
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How to encrypt a partition multiple times?
Is it possible to use cryptsetup only to encrypt a partition multiple times?
If not, what would you suggest to use to encrypt a partition say, 3 times in the most reliable way?
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How to hide the encrypted version of a file put in a cryptfs filesystem?
Say I create an encrypted folder and add a file to it:
# mount -t ecryptfs /srv /srv
# echo word > /srv/file
The content of file is unavailable only after unmounting the filesystem.
How can I ...
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How to gradually encrypt the tshark output file along the capture?
In order to secure a packet capture, which method would you use to make all (or close to all) past captured packet utterly unaccessible unless a given password is given.
My habbits are
to mount an ...
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What is the fastest way of checking a encfs password?
Is there any faster way of checking the password of an encfs folder than
echo <password> | encfs -S /root/.folder /root/folder
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can't find .1 in /etc/fstab with ecryptfs
I have initially created a encrypted folder /media/myfolder where /media/ design a mounted usb.
# mount -t ecryptfs /media/myfolder /media/myfolder
I have umount it with
# umount /media/myfolder
I ...
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Debian fails to prompt for encrypted disk password on boot
I am using Debian Scratch with encrypted root partition. The last kernel version where it worked was 4.6.0. For kernels 4.7.0 and 4.8.0 it prints on the boot repeatedly and forever following messages:
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After encrypting a disk, how do you check that a known plain-text inside the disk became gibberish? [closed]
I encrypted a disk using cryptsetup. I want to be able to visualize that a known text before encrypting the disk became gibberish after encrypting.
How do I do such comparison?
Here's an example ...
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Securing USB Drive
I am sharing important data with my friends/colleagues. For this, rather sending mail or uploading to some hosting site and providing them with the link, I prefer to give them individual USB Pen drive ...
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How do I get Grub to automatically run cryptomount to load its config file (encrypted boot)
So I'm trying to get a fully encrypted boot partition going. I'm running Funtoo, but mostly drawing from the Arch wiki for help.
So I decided to do something crazy/controversial: not separate boot/...
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Multiboot Different Linux Distros
I'm trying to setup my desktop and laptop to multi boot different distros without going into the Bios. So far everything I've tried has ended up with one of the distros not booting or booting into ...
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Is it possible to encrypt a hard disk with a key file instead of a password?
Looking into hard disk encryption. the go to solution seems to be dm-crypt with LUKS using a password. I work with multiple independent hard disks mounted into a disk pool for reading. In this case, I ...
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Reference encrypted swap partition/device by label/UUID rather than raw device name
TL;DR: How can I reference an encrypted swap block device in safe way on CentOS 7?
I'm trying to setup encrypted swap on a CentOS 7.2 VM, which has a swap device presented to it as /dev/vdb. This is ...
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Does Linux work well with encrypted ntfs drives?
What I want to do is to fully encrypt my external HDD.
My only system ATM is on Debian testing so I need to be able to set up the encryption from Linux.
My questions are, can that be done from Linux?
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share the encfs encrypted “.directory” via NFS
encfs uses FUSE to mount an encrypted directory (a hidden ".directory" by convention) onto another directory specified by the user.
I want to share the encrypted ".directory" via NFS where it will ...
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Bitlocker like capability for Linux?
As you know large company IT departments generally enable Bitlocker on any Windows laptop. Generally, one does not notice an issue with this and it is relatively effective in protecting the raw disk ...
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Mounted drive disappears and is no longer a valid LUKS device
A few days ago, I formatted and encrypted (LUKS+Ext4) a solid state drive the lazy way (using gnome-disks). The disk was mounted and I moved some data to the disk from another drive that I was going ...
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ecryptfs-setup-private failing on Centos 6
$ ecryptfs-setup-private --force
Enter your login passphrase:
Enter your mount passphrase [leave blank to generate one]:
************************************************************************
YOU ...
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Cryptsetup hanging after passphrase entered
I am currently looking to recover some data for a friend from an internal HDD removed from a laptop that they had encrypted using LUKS. They can't really tell me much more else as somebody else ...
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Can I migrate an existing openSUSE system to use disk encryption?
Currently, my laptop is running openSUSE Tumbleweed, but it doesn't have any disk encryption configured.
Is it possible to switch to full disk encryption or at least home directory encryption after ...
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How to mount a encrypted MS Windows 7 partition in Linux?
I have a dual-boot Windows 7 and Linux Mint. In Windows 7 I have 2 partitions, 1 for the system (C:) and another for data (D:). The data partition was encrypted with Bitlocker. I can use it in Windows ...
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Where can users' personal data be?
I want to secure my data on a multi-user system, so ful-system encryption is not an option.
I encrypted /home/me with ecryptfs, the swap with cryptsetup. But I read that the applications can ...
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Encrypt casper-rw file for use with Easy2Boot
I have created an Easy2Boot multiboot USB drive. Currently it contains two ISOs - Kali Linux 2016 and Linux Mint. I have created persistent ext2 filestore for both ISOs and configured them using the ...
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Setting up encrypted swap in LMDE (debian)
I want to use a swap drive that is encrypted by a random key on boot. I'm not sure if I am doing it safely, though.
I currently have /etc/crypttab based off of the example on arch wiki.
Unlike their ...
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BitLocker Use and Linux
Is it possible to have BitLocker enabled on a USB device and still be able to access files from the device within Linux? I have a drive I need to keep encrypted but need to access on both Linux and ...
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How to recover encrypted /home/ folder in Linux Mint 17.2
The issue:
I changed my password earlier today, but I must've made a typo, because I couldn't log in afterwards. I booted into the Grub menu and started a passwordless root shell to reset my password. ...
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How should the `crypto` kernel parameter be passed?
I've encrypted a root drive using a cipher with this format:
<cipher>-<chainmode>-<ivmode>:<ivopt>.
Let's call this [CIPHER] for short.
To boot from this device, certain ...
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Does Linux require the decryption and login passwords to be the same?
thanks for looking at this question. I have seen several other questions about eOS login loops--none solved my problem, including upgrading the kernel, deleting .Xauthority, etc.
Last night I changed ...
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How to mount an external encrypted drive?
My computer stopped working so I'm plugging the hard drive with a USB adapter to another computer to recover my files.
After plugging it the passphrase prompt appears to unlock the volume, I type the ...
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Struggling to boot linux with full disk encryption from USB
I would like to be able to boot linux (mint or ubuntu preferred) on my desktop from a fully encrypted USB stick. Apparently this is possible, however the solution has eluded me. Please forgive my ...
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How to encrypt Linux (Debian 8) post-installation and what are the consequences?
I have certain folders in my Linux partition which I need to make sure no one can access unless the log in with my login password (or root one).
I know that during installation I can encrypt with ...
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LUKS on an internal hard drive
I have a hard drive which is encrypted using LUKS. It was originally an external hard drive. Recently I removed the casing and connected it directly (via SATA). However, when I connect it directly, I'...
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Windows 10 and Archlinux Dualboot from encrypted drive
A few days ago I bought a new notebook without an operating system. I am planning to install Arch Linux and Windows 10, because sometimes at university you get software you have to use which can only ...
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Unlock the encrypted Volumes after restarting the server via SSH
I used the sudo shutdown -r to restart my Mac server via SSH. However, after restarting the server, I discovered that two volumes are offline due to encryption.
What I am trying to do is input the ...
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A stop job is running for LVM
I use full disk encryption which uses an LVM. It uses like this in lsblk:
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda ...
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Encrypted automounting partition
I have a debian based server at home using banana-pro. One of its functions is being a backup/owncloud/nas. There is a sata drive attached to it and I want it to be encrypted. I know that for a pc I ...
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Encrypt partition and allow qemu to use it as the guest drive
I am trying to encrypt a 25gb partition on my SSD with cryptsetup in such a way that will allow QEMU-KVM to use it as the guests drive.
I have tried luksformatting the drive:
cryptsetup luksFormat /...
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What is happening with the Linux swap partition data when running Windows via dual-boot
Hmm, I would like to know what is happening with the data on the Linux swap partition when the Linux system is turned off and by the next start the Windows operating system via GRUB2 will start.
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Set up bluetooth keyboard to enter disk encryption password
How can I set up a bluetooth keyboard, so that I can use it to enter the disk encryption key, so that my encrypted linux system boots.
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Full Disk Decryption via DHCP
I would like to implement full disk encryption on all clients. But to avoid having people to enter the FDE access code when they boot, I am wondering if the access code can be distributed by DHCP or ...
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How do I automatically mount a plain-encrypted USB flash drive to my OpenWRT router?
I just finished encrypting my external hard drive using a key file, and mounting it onto my router. Problem is, every restart i have to manually recreate the mapping and mount it again.
OpenWRT's ...
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How could a typical partition scheme look like on a bootable thumbdrive with uefi and diskencryption?
I am now playing with uefi and read about some kind of basics, which seem to be:
Create a partition table of type GPT
Create an efi partition, type fat16
in this partition create a structure like /...
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Encrypt External HardDrive that contain Data
Is there an easy way to encrypt my 2To hard-drive that is completely full, without having to buy another one format / encrypt the drive, and then finally transfer all the data over ?
