Questions tagged [encryption]
Questions about encryption such as home folder encryption, partition encryption and file encryption.
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PC does not boot after installing nvidia driver on ubuntu 20.04 installed on encrypted disk
I just installed ubuntu 20.04 on a HP Z1 TO COMPLETE
I enabled LUKS disk encryption in the ubuntu installer, and ubuntu works well, no problem to boot.
After installing nvidia driver 470 then the PC ...
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Filesystem with encryption support
I need filesystem level encryption with the following features:
directory encryption.
being fast.
being based on passphrase.
has less overhead.
only the user who decrypt it can access and see the ...
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Crypttab timeout
I have Ubuntu 22.04.
I have no any strings about timeout= in my manual page (man crypttab).
However it is in manual on Internet (Crypttab).
Does it mean my crypttab not support timeout=?
Why I cannot ...
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USB external disks encrypted with LUKS not providing SMART data [duplicate]
I have a Seagate external 5TB "expansion" disk, connected over USB. It is encrypted using LUKS.
The disk started clicking and re-spinning suspiciously.
So I want to see the SMART data to see ...
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Installing Ubuntu 23.10 on a separate NVME SSD than Windows 11 with Bitlocker
Yesterday I tried to get some help on fixing my grub2 after removing grub customizer and was unable to do so with any of the responses and my question was closed as resolved. I have decided it may be ...
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Can I decrypt an encrypted USB-HDD using a USB enclosure case, other than the one used for encrypting?
I encrypted an external USB-HDD and it works like a charm, I can decrypt using the password when manually mounting or even automatically decrypt with using the proper settings to do so with using the ...
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How to recover a deleted LUKS partition
I have created a LUKS encrypted pen drive with the gnome-disks tool, but a time ago I have accidentally formatted the disk, losing the partition.
I tried to recuperate the partition stored on sda1 ...
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Ubuntu/Xubuntu 22.04 installation issue with RAID and full disk encryption
I'm trying to install a ubuntu or xubuntu 22.04.4 with minimum install to a device that has RAID 1 configured in BIOS. During installation I selected to erase disk and use LVM with new Ubuntu ...
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Volume group "encrypted" not found - error message during boot - I did not set up any volume groups
It was working the previous days normally, but suddenly I got this error message during the boot somewhere around the end of init-premount or beginning of local-bottom or in-between.
Volume group &...
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Inaccessible Data after LUKS2 encryption
I tried to encrypt a HDD with an exisiting EXT4 partition on it using Luks2.
First I made room for the LUKS2 header (probably the issue I assume...):
resize2fs / dev/sdc1 2929710000
Then I started ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 not booting on Dell XPS 13 9320 after fresh install (Dual boot Windows 11)
I recently bought a Dell XPS 13 9320 with Windows 11 pre-installed with the intention to install Ubuntu alongside on dual boot, with encryption.
I followed these instructions: https://www.mikekasberg....
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Is it possible to use old home folder after encryption?
My company wants me to format my computer and do disk encryption however I have tons of customizations on my pc so I don't want to lose them. I thought I can copy my home folder into external disk and ...
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Protect system disk from attaching to another machine
I have a device (Raspberry PI 3, Orange PI 5) with SSD as main disk, running under Ubuntu 22.04.
This device should be autonome, i.e. autimatically reboot and autorun some services.
There is some ...
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Move Ubuntu 22.04 to hardware hp p410i RAID1 with encrypted volumes on BIOS
I have an old hp n40l microserver with Ubuntu 22.04 on board with quite old BIOS as of 2012.
Now my SSD 256GB disk is split to 2 partitions: /boot/efi and /.
I've bought hp p410i RAID card, and 3 more ...
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Unlock bitlocker drive using udisksctl > error
I try to use udisksctl to unlock a bitlocked drive. The key is stored in keyhorse, and I can get it using secret-tool.
The command I tried is:
udisksctl unlock -b /dev/nvme0n1p3 --key-file <(secret-...
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