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HOWTO: Automatically Unlock LUKS Encrypted Drives With A Keyfile
This howto shows how to unlock multiple devices in the
intial ramdisk remotely. I...
This post will show you how to mount encrypted partitions at boot automatically because no one likes mounting encrypted partitions manually.
Update: LUKS2 is out, use it instead! LUKS2 was released in 2018, you should double-check the documentation for it before you blindly follow this guide :)
Introduction Since TrueCrypt is no longer under active development, I’ve decided to wipe my external drives and re-encrypt them with LUKS and dm-crypt. These are standard Linux tools that are available by default in most distributions. I’ve used LUKS and dm-crypt in the past, when I installed Arch Linux on my laptop.
Steps to auto mount LUKS device using key with passphrase in fstab and crypttab in Linux. Boot LUKS encrypted partition without password using luks passphrase
Using dm-crypt and auto-mounting a drive without storing the key on the local disk
It´s a good pratice to encrypt all your hard drives to keep good security for your data at rest. Eith... Tagged with security, encryption, debian, ubuntu.
a utility for accessing encrypted filesystems