Questions tagged [encryption]
encoding information in a way so that it can only be decoded if a secret is known; used to prevent exposure of data to other parties
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Is encrypting the login keyring necessary if you have full disk encryption?
For laptops with fingerprint sensors, logging in using fingerprints does not unlock the login keyring because it needs the password (usually set to be the same as the user password). I am considering ...
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Does systemd-cryptenroll encryption with a TPM bind decryption to that TPM?
I've been trying to find information about how systemd-cryptenroll performs full-drive encryption with LUKS. I understand that the LUKS header allows multiple keyslots, and that using the TPM as a ...
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What things can i do with a gpu? [closed]
Is there a way to use a NVidia GPU for:
Compress/Decompress a .rar Archive?
Create and open a LUKS Device?
Compile Code with GCC?
Or for what computationally intensive tasks can i use a gpu with linux?...
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Disk Encryption for a Linux File Server Used by Multiple Devices
I have a Linux server that uses Samba to share a 2TB NTFS drive (which was formerly in an old Windows server) on my home network.
It acts as a file server, and the files are accessed by three home PCs ...
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cryptsetup block size preventing from using it
I used cryptsetup to encrypt a disk. I followed this tutorial, which uses the default values. Afterwards I used the disk with no issues and backed up my data.
Now I connect it again and returns error ...
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Encrypted swap not initialised on fresh debian install
I have recently installed Debian 13 with encryption for both my main drive and swap.
My root (sda3) LUKS volume unlocks fine and mounts. My swap (sda4) was set up as encrypted swap with random key (...
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Extract Chromium passwords stored via Kwallet
So I have Chromium (137), and Kwallet, and they work ok, Chromium saves and offers passwords on sites, and they are correct.
But I want to backup my passwords to external drive (and there are another ...
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Is the following way of encrypting hard drive using file encryption safe?
Assuming that I want to encrypt/decrypt a hard drive corresponding to /dev/sdX, the following is the procedure I have for doing so:
Encryption:
Write the hard drive's data into a file (e.g. ./tmp), ...
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How to automount eCryptfs volume at boot (without login)?
We have two servers. Application sever A and NFS file server B. Server B is shared among multiple various applications and it's generic NFS storage host that we don't have access to and it's corporate ...
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Journal or Diary App thats both secure and customizable
Looking for a private journal app that is customizable in font size and style and similar functions to Libra writer. Why you ask? I am a Tinkerer, and a Philosopher of sorts, and am looking for that &...
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When do you have to check the fingerprint of a PGP key in an independent way during initial contact?
For brevity I talk about PGP, but GnuPG or OpenPGP are meant as well and gpg is the OpenPGP encryption and signing tool for it.
When initially establishing an email connection with someone, both ...
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Updating macsec key on two Linux hosts using 'ip macsec' commands
I'm trying to do a simple task with no luck so far.
I have two linux hosts communicating using macsec interfaces:
Host1:
[Expert@jaguar_macsec-s01-01:0]# ip macsec show
11: Sync: protect on validate ...
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Unable to unlock multiple LUKS partitions with one passphrase
I'm using Ubuntu with a LVM over LUKS disk scheme. I have two SSDs, hence two LVM PVs are needed. They are both encrypted with LUKS, and have the same passphrase.
Now on boot-up, I need to type the ...
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Is it safe to mount the same gocryptfs directory from multiple places at once?
If I put a gocryptfs crypt directory on an NFS share, is it safe to mount that share from multiple machines and simultaneously run gocryptfs on that directory from multiple places? I want multiple ...
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ssh-keygen 9.9p1 created PKCS#1 encrypted RSA private key fails to use available 3DES encryption - uses aes-128-cbc instead
I'm trying to import an RSA key pair onto an older version of Cisco IOS (16.6.4). That old version seems to only accept PEM-encoded private keys that are encrypted with DES or 3DES. At least, those ...
