Questions tagged [encryption]
Questions about encryption such as home folder encryption, partition encryption and file encryption.
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Accidentally deleted all partitions, trying to recover ecryptfs home w/ photorec
Heyo, I commited a mistake and accidentally zapped all my partitions from my Linux Mint install. No big problem, I was able to run photorec and get all my .eCryptfs files back. The issue now is trying ...
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I have installed Ubuntu using disk encryption. When my pc boots it shows the pass input on the second monitor that i keep closed when i don't need it
I have installed Ubuntu using disk encryption. When my pc boots it shows the pass input on the second monitor that i keep closed when i don't need it.
Is it possible to show the pass input on the ...
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encrypt the filesystem of non-encrypted drive with luks
I have a partition non-encrypted. It has files and is ext4. Is it possible to encrypt it? First it will require map to luks name. For that the cryptsetup command informs current ext4 will be erased. ...
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USB flash stick with LUKS encryption... somehow stopped being a LUKS
I've made USB stick with LUKS+ext4 by standard Ubuntu's Disks app and used it 1-2 years, everything was fine. But one day Files (Nautilus) hang, after few tries of ejecting / unmounting USB stick I've ...
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How to set up 2 LUKS encrypted Ubuntu installs that share a /boot partition?
I'm sort of a newbie to configuring multiboot setups. For context, with great effort, I was able to set up 2 encrypted installs and have them both bootable from grub via the 40_custom method of adding ...
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Automount encrypted Luks USB device when connected
how can I automount an encrypted USB device (e.g. USB stick) via key file, when connected.
What I did so far
It works during boot time. The device will be encrypted via keyfile and mounted in /mnt/usb,...
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Broken boot due to bad startup script
While trying to set up a usb key to unlock an encrypted OS drive on ubuntu 24.04 server, I accidentally created a broken script (typed rather than copy-pasting) and the system will no longer boot. I ...
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Full Disk Encryption With Custom Storage Layout During Ubuntu 24.04 Installation?
During installation of fresh Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, when i select custom storage layout i can not see any option to encrypt the full disk and we are told full disk encryption is available during fresh ...
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boot partition encrypted and not detected by grub
I have ubuntu installed with boot unecrypted and root encrypted. To get boot encrypted, I have created 4GB new boot partition encrypted and copied everything from first plain boot partition. For grub, ...
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How can I retrieve (or replace) one LUKS password, given a second one
The good news is that I can unlock my LUKS encrypted home partition. Keyslot 1 ties to a file on a USB stick that my /etc/crypttab uses to automatically unlock. And so as long as a cheap USB stick ...
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unlocking LUKS root partition with FIDO2 Yubikey (and ideally without dracut)
I enrolled my FIDO2 Yubikey device as a way to unlock my encrypted partition:
/etc/crypttab
dm_crypt-0 UUID=78768999-69dd-44ba-8858-dd0c2ecbc2b5 none luks
dm_crypt-0 UUID=78768999-69dd-44ba-8858-...
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disk encryption in ubuntu 24.04 LTS
When we do manual disk configuration for installation with 24.04 LTS, there is no option to encrypt partion (not disk). There is one option to erase whole disk rather than partition and it also ...
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Does Ubuntu have obstacles to operating after an SSD swap?
My problem is that several keys have stopped working on the keyboard of my Ubuntu machine, likely Ubuntu 22.04. I can't get past full disk de-encryption because my password needs some of the dead ...
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Booting into recovery mode turns my screen into "Braille" hieroglyphs?
I am running a Ubuntu 22.04 with LUX full disk encryption in a VM. I just finished configuring GRUB to require a password using this answer, and to only require a password when changing settings using ...
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Booting from encrypted disk image on USB drive
I'd like to make a USB drive on which I can store a number of liveCDs (ubuntu installer for example).
So far, I'm able to select an ISO in Grub, and boot from it.
What I'd like to do is either:
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