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PLUG => Meeting Notes & Minutes => Topic started by: Jason on December 20, 2021, 10:52:02 PM

Title: PLUG Virtual meeting: Drive encryption - Notes
Post by: Jason on December 20, 2021, 10:52:02 PM
I learned how to create and use encrypted drives in an Intermediate Linux course. I found this article that covers it pretty well if you want to try this yourself and didn't take notes. :) Just skip the first section titled, "Linux encryption methods." We used LUKS as does the rest of the tutorial.

https://www.cyberciti.biz/security/howto-linux-hard-disk-encryption-with-luks-cryptsetup-command/

Also, I don't believe luksOpen worked on my system. Same with luksClose. I just used 'open' and 'close' respectively. There's also a reference to luksDump. You can ignore that part - we didn't cover it.

If you have comments about the meeting, please post them here (https://plugintolinux.ca/forum/index.php/topic,1630.0.html). This board is only for notes or minutes from presentations. Comments about the meetings should go in the respective announcements on the Meeting board (https://plugintolinux.ca/forum/index.php/board,2.0.html).

However, if you have links to other information or examples of how to extend the use of cryptsetup, feel to post them below.