Questions tagged [disk-encryption]
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GRUB2 won't Mount encrypted partitions for Kali 2019.4
While attempting to boot a new installation of Kali Linux 2019.4 on a USB drive it appears GRUB 2.04-5 will not decrypt the root partition:
Volume group "cryotic" not found
Cannot process volume ...
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Boot doesn't see my encrypted OS after update
I have two Ubuntu 18.04 installations on my machine:
personal /dev/sda1
work (full-disk encryption) /dev/sda3
I installed some updates on my personal partition last night (see log on pastebin: https://...
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mount crypto_LUKS partition without decrypting (locally)
I have an encrypted external disk on a linux server.
On the server, I can do this locally to decrypt
cryptsetup -d keyfile luksOpen /dev/sdx1 /mnt/decrypted
but I prefer to avoid doing that on the ...
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How to move swap from encrypted lvm to one-time key?
Currently my setup is:
cryptsetup
lvm
root
home
swap
I would like to achieve something like
cryptsetup
lvm
root
home
swap (one-time key)
The steps i am thinking of are:
remove swap (can do)
shrink LVM ...
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Is there a way to do one-time pads(OTP) with Linux cryptsetup(dm-crypt)?
It looks like losetup with cryptoloop did it and there was a dm-xor module for a very old kernel, but can't find anything modern. I'm wading through a ton of obsolete losetup documents.
Something ...
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Recover space from persistent storage by Tails OS?
I installed Tails in a USB stick and enabled persistent storage. The USB had 16GB of storage. Now I formatted the USB without freeing up the persistent storage and lost 10GB of space. I remember the ...
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Is there a way to have hibernate and encrypted swap on nixos?
There's a way to get encrypted swap + hibernate on Ubuntu. There's also a way to get encrypted swap on nixos (use randomEncryption.enable = true), and a way to make hibernate to swap. Is there a way ...
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temporarily suspend/disable FileVault
Is there a way, or does anyone know of a way to temporarily disable or suspend File Vault disk encryption?
I know fdesetup disable will decrypt the entire disk (which i don't want), but is there a way ...
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How to mount a partition inside encrypted lvm inside a disk image?
On my previous computer, I had my / /home and swap inside an encrypted lvm, and outside the lvm I had the /boot and /boot/efi. I then created an image. I think I did like this: dd if=/dev/sda of=lvm....
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Migrate Arch from encrypt to sd-encrypt
I recently installed Antergos (which is basically Arch) and set it to use full disk encryption. Now, I want to migrate from encrypt to sd-encrypt because I want to be able to hibernate and I couldn't ...
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How come my encrypted drives/partitions randomly do not decrypt upon booting?
I have the following encrypted.
- HOME drive
- SWAP partition
- BACKUP drive
I use a keyfile on a USB stick to decrypt my drives upon booting.
Sometimes, and I mean RANDOMLY, upon booting up my ...
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Stuck starting /dev/mapper/luks
A recent upgrade rendered my computer unbootable. The boot never completes. It is stuck at:
Start job is running for /dev/mapper/luks-4956cb53-c8e8-4525-b3e0-2f54bad2a801
Additionally, I am now ...
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Device name to use in luks commands for LVM LUKS
Can somebody with more LUKS LVM experience than me tell me what the correct device name is to use in this context.
I'm trying to follow some instructions about using clevis and tang in CentOS. The ...
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Delete volume group of HDD of which the name is the same as my main SSD's
I just bought a new computer with an HDD + SSD. I must've accidentally encrypted the HDD it during installation, although I am sure I did undo it, but here it is, encrypted and even if I put the ...
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Full disk encryption with few volume groups
My current LVM configuration: I have two physical volumes (pv): 256 GB of SSD and 1 TB of HDD. These volumes are used by different volume groups (vg):
SSD vg has logical volumes which are mount where ...
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Avoid GRUB infection which would crack my encrypted linux
I have an unencrypted /boot partition with GRUB and an encrypted partition, where my Linux is located. An attacker, who wants to read my encrypted partition, could gain physical access to my computer ...
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What I can do in LUKS when I'm asked for password?
When I start PC it asks for my password to boot in system. 1) But I cannot use CAPSLOCK when I use CAPSLOCK the light on my keyboard is not lighting.
2) Does SHIFT button work ?
3) Can I delete a ...
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Is there a way to encrypt disk without formatting it?
When I was installing my OS, I didn't encrypt. Is there a way to encrypt it now without formatting and without losing any data?
I read a few guides how to encrypt and every one says that I need to ...
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LUKS encryption Mint - only being asked to decrypt one of my two encrypted drives
I've just finished setting up LUKS encryption on new install of Mint 18.3. I mainly followed the steps in this guide (only doing the system #1 setup however as this is the sole OS on this system).
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Moving hard drive from old laptop to new laptop
The story
On my old laptop (Asus K56CB) I was running Linux Mint, the drive was also encrypted since Mint was first installed, for clarity. Eventually this laptop broke and I recently got a Lenovo ...
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Login loop ubuntu 16.04
The day before I run into the problem I had installed Virtual Machine and Vagrant and everything was fine. When I fired up my computer the next day, I got stuck in a login loop. My next action was go ...
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FreeBSD GELI Encrypted Disk Capacity vs Unencrypted
I encrypt my external backup devices with AES256 using GELI on FreeBSD 11. I have recently changed the disks to 240GB SSDs whereby only half the capacity is usable which is causing the backup to fail. ...
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Mounting encrypted external device with conflicting LVM names
I got myself a new hard drive and installed the most current version of Linux Mint. Now I wanted to transfer the files from the old disk (I had no recent backup) but there are several issues
the LVMs' ...
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How to encrypt a btrfs subvolume?
I'm looking for information about encryption with btrfs. I have experience with full-disk (LVM actually) encryption, so this time I only need to look at some btrfs specific questions.
I have found ...
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Best encryption for multi-disk lvm volumes
Here's the scenario: I have a backup server that currently has a (unencrypted) logical backup volume that expands over two physical disks. I need to be able to expand the volume by adding more disks. ...
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