Questions tagged [encryption]
Encryption is the process of transforming information using an algorithm to make it unreadable to anyone except those possessing special knowledge.
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BitLocker Encryption Stuck on 0.9%
As the title says, bitlocker encryption for my drive is at 0.9%, after running for many combined hours.
Running many commands that interact with bitlocker or the drive hang the console and all other ...
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Windows 11 Device Encryption not working after dual boot [duplicate]
First I installed Windows, I turned on Secure Boot and checked in System Information that the PCR7 Configuration was OK and that Device Encryption Support was ready to be enabled. Then I installed ...
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Issues Configuring Swap and Moving /home to a New Encrypted Disk on Ubuntu 24.04
I have Ubuntu 24.04 installed with the default disk partitioning settings chosen by the installer, including LVM encryption. I have two SSDs:
First disk with the following partitions:
/boot/efi
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Managing LUKS encrypted swap files/volumes. Manual mounting on remote dedicated servers, boot behavior, and fstab settings
I would like to setup an as simple as possible encryption at rest solution for a remote dedicated server. The host I am using will provide physical disks and there is no off the shelf solution for ...
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Veracrypt and long load of Pc before windows start
The situation is such. I have three Windows systems on one hard drive. The system partition of one or two of them is encrypted. There is one more partition. It is encrypted by Veracrypt also and is ...
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Can't boot with SSD plugged in after power loss while encrypting it
I was encrypting an SSD with Bitlocker when a power outage occured interrupting the encryption, when I powered back up the PC got stuck.
When the SSD is connected, the PC freezes on the initial boot ...
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Truncate history of a GPG key
When you create a GnuPG key, edit it, and list packages, it still shares hints to the past changes. How can I clear/truncate the history of a GPG key?
Consider the following gpg --list-packets output ...
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Enable BitLocker full disk encryption with manage-bde or PowerShell
Contrary to the documentation for both manage-bde and Enable-BitLocker, only Used Space Only encryption is used on a disk with the following commands even though the -UsedSpaceOnly parameter is not ...
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Can I fix this encoding issue with a copy and pasted .p12 Certificate?
Wondering if there is a work around, whether it be from advanced settings in Gmail or another text editor or command line fix for a pretty stupid issue.
I hastily opened a .p12 Certificate in Notepad, ...
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ssh-keygen fails to read key generated by itself
Using OpenSSH_8.9p1 Ubuntu-3ubuntu0.7 on WSL, ssh-keygen refuses a key it previously generated, outputting error:
do_convert_from_ssh2: parse key: invalid format
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$ cd /tmp/...
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How do I hide the size of GPG message?
When constructing encrypted GPG messages I've noticed that the size of the output seems to be correlated to the size of the input. This makes sense in an information-theoretic sense. However, this is ...
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Google Drive Sync Encryption
So I got some terabytes of free GD from google workspace of my organization. I do realize that, it's intended for organization stuff therefore they can see my personal data if I store on it.
Is there ...
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Re-enryption Failure VMware Workstation Pro 17
Am currently using lastest version of Workstation (17.5.2). On my Win 11 machine after the last few upgrades, I keep getting the following message: "The virtual machine is encrypted using old ...
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Would it be beneficial when trying to decrypt network traffic, to while sniffing on the network, if target sends known file, can this help solve dcrpt [closed]
If a known file is sent from on network computer to yourself, or to some other network computer, is there a way this can be leveraged to solve decryption?
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I can format the BitLocker encrypted without unlocking it. But I saw lots of articles on internet which say I can't do it?
I can format the BitLocker encrypted drive without unlocking it. But I saw lots of articles on internet which say I can't do it. Is there any damage to my drive if I format it on locked state? Looking ...
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Does installing Windows 11 automatically encrypt all drives?
A number of posts at various sites, including Super User, have claimed that installing, Windows 11 encrypted the main drive and other local drives without the user's request.
Is it possible that ...
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Is there a way to move a LUKS-encrypted btrfs volume to the right?
I want to move a LUKS-encrypted btrfs volume to the right. GParted is telling me it knows how to move the LUKS layer to the right, but it doesn’t know how to move the btrfs layer to the right. Can I ...
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Decryption a token which is encrypted in lower OpenSSL version
We are currently using OpenSSL 1.0.1 to encrypt a token as below:
Encryption:
echo $TOKEN | openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -e -kfile <path of kfile> -md sha256 | base64 -w 0
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echo $TOKEN ...
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How to format an external drive into encrypted exFAT in Windows 11?
My current USB drive (256gb) is formatted in Mac and is an encrypted APFS file system made in Disk Utility. I recently started using Windows 11 and I would like to transfer and access files between ...
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What is the proper way to restore EFS certificate?
I have backed up my EFS certificate (.pfx) along with the password I used for it. And then I followed this tutorial to restore it which seemed pretty straight forward. I didn't encounter any errors ...
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WIN11 data decryption stuck and system frozen
I'm currently dealing with a significant problem on my ASUS laptop, which seems to stem from possible hardware malfunctions coupled with Windows 11 altering crucial settings without my permission. ...
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How can I enable suspend to disk (hibernation / S4) on current Fedora Desktop systems with full disk encryption
I thought that it was once possible natively to hibernate computers but my current machine (Dell XPS 13 9300) on Fedora Linux 39 (Workstation Edition) only offers these in the GNOME session menu
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PTK and GTK where are they stored?
So I know for unicast traffic PTK is used to encrypt and obtain ciphertext; and for multicast traffic GTK is used to encrypt and obtain ciphertext. I know PTK is produced at a 4 way handshake, and ...
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Hard time understanding LUKS encryption
I'm reading and studying for my LPI-1 exam, when I came across LUKS for disk encryption. I found it super cool and went to try it on my home lab, in my Debian machine. Installed everything, encrypted ...
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How to permanently delete a LUKS encrypted partition?
I have been using a LUKS encrypted partition as my /home directory on Manjaro. However, as I have to resize and move a few of my disk partitions, I would like to get rid of it. On Manjaro, I have ...
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Converting Linux partition to crypto_LUKS
I'm currently working on RHEL 8.9 and attempting to harden a VM of mine, and looking into applying the crypto_LUKS encryption to my active partitions. When I check my partitions using the blkid ...
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Veracrypt somehow really messed up the bootloader on my PC
So basically I wanted to install windows on a secondary physical drive in my PC so I could have a second bare metal OS for testing stuff. I have 1 M.2 SSD that has my main windows installation ...
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Is it possible to recover pass passwords from backup?
I was missing some passwords for some quite old accounts, when I remembered I'd made a backup of my drive at the time. There, I found a ~/.local/share/password-store directory, in which my passwords ...
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Is it possible to recover bitlocker using a USB drive?
So I've got a laptop currently dual booting windows and linux. I primarily use the linux installation, but I have certain things that need to be on windows. Currently I have bitlocker set up on ...
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Does encrypting full drive with BitLocker secure-wipe the drive?
Say I have a storage device that I want to use with my Windows 10 machine. I have some sensitive data on the drive and I would like to wipe the drive before using it. Normally I just use dd to fill ...
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