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Luks "No key available with this passphrase" but seemingly at random

I've been having the strangest of experiences with my encrypted Luks volume and was hoping maybe someone could help me shed some light on it. Let me walk you through it. When installing my OS (vanilla ...
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Is there a easy way to encrypt my /home directory?

I'm running Arch Linux and would like to encrypt my personal files in my home directory /home/myusername. What is the recommended way of encrypting it? I've already read about dm-crypt and LUKS. But ...
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Error unlocking /dev/sda: Failed to activate device: Invalid argument

Occasionally, unlocking my luks encrypted disk errors with this: https://i.sstatic.net/eTzoz.png (posted link because not enough rep for images) Trying to mount /dev/sda returns mount: /dev/sda: can't ...
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Accessing LUKS-encrypted exFAT partition with FreeOTFE

My computer is setup with dual boot Windows 8.1 and Arch Linux, with the windows partition encrypted with BitLocker and Arch encrypted with dm-crypt/LUKS. (I would have used Truecrypt, but they are on ...
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