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Kali Encrypted Persistence opens wrong device (HDD instead of USB)
I have created the encrypted live USB as per Kali documentation. I have set up encrypted persistence with cryptsetup as mentioned in the documentation. I've verified that I'm able access the partition(...
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How to find my LUKS encryption passphrase inside decrypted filesystem?
I have lost my encryption passphrase, however my computer is still on and I would like to know if there's a way to see my passphrase to avoid having to backup my data and reinstall.
The hard drive was ...
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LUKS - Detached header - where is encryption key stored?
I encrypted a disk using LUKS with detached header. The header was present on a removable disk.
Once the mapped device (under /dev/mapper) was created, I removed the disk containing header. I was ...
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Execute script as root with home folder decrypted
Is there a possibility to run a script as root on startup whilst also being able to access files in the encrypted home dir?
I know of /etc/rc.local which can execute scripts as root but since the ...
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cryptsetup not unlocking at boot
I have these two files:
/etc/crypttab:
cry1 /dev/sda3 none luks
cry2 /dev/sda4 /mounted/sda3/keyfile luks
/etc/fstab:
/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 ro 0 ...
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Does LUKS encryption detect bit-rot / bit flips on HDD/SSD?
Suppose an underlying storage device has a undetected bit-flip without reporting an error.
How does LUKS react to this?
Does it detect as an error ? any kernel messages in dmesg/syslog?
Does it ...
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LUKS keyfile lost
I lost the keyfile to open a LUKS partition.
The command luksDump tell me that there is 2 key slots, so one them is certainly a passphrase that I left after adding the keyfile. Is there a way to know ...
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How to find corrupted files on LUKS encrypted disks by searching for unencrypted content
I have a full disk encrypted Ubuntu 16.04 system running at home on a SSD which had uncorrectable media errors and so had to be replaced.
So I used ddrescue to copy all partitions to a new SSD, and ...
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Dualboot Windows on existing LUKS full encrypted hdd
So, I have a HDD with data on it, encrypted. I would like to install windows (8 or 10) on the same drive (allocate some space on it from that partition, it has 500+ GB free right now. I don't want to ...
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LUKS encrypted drive not booting after modifying partition table with TestDIsk
I screwed up my partition table the other day but had recovered it with TestDisk. After re-writing the partition table, I'm able to boot up into GRUB and subsequently the interface for entering my ...
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dm-crypt/LUKS, won't mount encrypted drive. Requested offset is beyond real size of device
I screwed up my partition table the other day but had recovered it with TestDisk. After re-writing the partition table, I'm able to boot up into GRUB and subsequently the interface for entering my ...
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How to unlock keyfile-protected partition where keyfile is located on a password protected partition?
I would like to automatically decrypt /dev/sdb3 at boot with a keyfile located on /dev/sda5 which is a (passphrase-)encrypted partition.
By "automatically", I mean "at boot, after being ...
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Trying to recover encrypted partition, getting very confused
I have a LUKS/cryptsetup encrypted disk from a friend's Debian machine which would not boot. I'm trying to mount it on another Debian machine, using a USB enclosure, to recover the data or get some ...
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Can't open a luks encrypted partition
I have a dead linux system that can't boot now which was lvm encrypted. Now I am on a live linux system trying to recover the data on the /home partition. I have used "cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb3" ...
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How resilient are VeraCrypt and LUKS encrypted volumes against data corruption?
The question has been partly answered, but that's still not what I'm exactly looking for. See for Update 1 down bere
I'm planning to encrypt some filesystems with VeraCrypt and LUKS, but my fears are ...
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