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Are there any motherboards / UEFI that support hardware encryption on SED?
I found that Thinkpads have hdd password support, which in terms uses some bizarre password hashing and ends up with 90 bits of entropy, which is again used as ATA security password to SED, which in ...
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How does iOS / Android device encryption work?
As far as I'm aware, a locked iOS is considered very safe. No one, who does not know the PIN cannot unlock the phone. While the PIN seems weak on the first glance (4 digits?) it is actually strong, ...
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SSH-Agent writing unencrypted keys to swap memory
I have recently set up a computer with full disk encryption, and I decided not to encrypt the swap partition for performance reasons. I have been using ssh-agent on another computer to load my private ...
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Do I retain plausible deniability if using "quick format" in veracrypt on new SSD?
I bought a new 2 TB SSD (NVMe). I want to turn it entirely into a veracrypt volume, nearly all of the drive being for a hidden volume. First, I told it to do a "quick format", which was done ...
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LUKS: How many iterations are enough?
The luksFormat command accepts iteration time as a parameter, not iterations. That obviously leads to quite different number of iterations depending on the hardware doing the encryption. However if ...
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Choosing Encryption Strategies for Secure Long-Term Storage of Sensitive Data
When considering external drives for secure long-term storage of sensitive data, what are the pros and cons of using the same password for encrypting all files versus using random passwords for each ...
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Advice on encryption setup
I've been trying to get a reliable, and decently secure setup on a device for a little while now, and I feel like I may be overthinking some things but I am unsure.
Just to clear things up, this is ...
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How to protect files in use on a system powered on from physical theft or tampering?
I'm in the process of figuring out an encryption strategy for a personal Linux system.
My laptop is almost always on, or in sleep mode, except for longer travels.
My main threats are theft of my ...
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AEAD: Authenticating a digest of my data instead the data itself
Relevant question for Python:
Stack Exchange: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75739308/aead-authentication-with-huge-input-that-doesnt-fit-into-ram
Top Answers: https://topanswers.xyz/python?q=...
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Are there ways to detect plain dm-crypt encryption and what are the countermeasures against them?
Encryption with plain dm-crypt is often positioned as encryption that cannot be recognized. But is it really so? Are there ways to prove that the data is encrypted with plain dm-crypt? How to bypass ...
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How to make a virtual machine forensics-proof - completely or to the maximum possible level?
I want to make a VMWare (VMWare is first preference but any alternative can be used as well) virtual machine completely digital forensics-proof. I am protecting against someone getting physical access ...
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Is it sufficient to put /var, /tmp/, and /home on their own encrypted partitions?
I want to encrypt my system, but I don't want the hassle of having to put in two passwords on boot; I just want to put in one password on login that would decrypt the other partitions. I have heard ...
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Suspicious SSD corruption exactly at LUKS encryption header
I am helping with an interesting data recovery issue. The laptop was running Debian 11 Linux with LUKS full disk encryption on a Samsung 970 Evo Plus 2TB SSD for quite many months. Suddenly the LUKS ...
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Is it possible to hack encrypted external HDD,if you have access to it? [duplicate]
If I lose my external HDD and somebody finds it and tries to hack, will he succeed?Is it possible to get data from encrypted disk by disassembling it and working with platters?
HDD is APFS AES 256 ...
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Is it safe to store data on APFS 256 AES encrypted external HDD disk?
I'm using a MacBook and want to store confidential data (financial documents, passwords, private photos, etc.) on an external HDD disk.
How safe is setting up APFS AES 256 encryption with disk ...