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What do you do about staff and personal laptops?

Today, one of our developers had his laptop stolen from his house. Apparently, he had a full svn checkout of the company's source code, as well as a full copy of the SQL database. This is one massive reason why I'm personally against allowing…
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Can cryptsetup read mappings from /etc/crypttab?

I have a virtualized CentOS 7 server that needs to mount multiple password-protected encrypted volumes. I cannot automatically map the devices on boot, because I don't have access to the console during the boot process to enter the decryption…
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BitLocker with Windows DPAPI Encryption Key Management

We have a need to enforce resting encryption on an iSCSI LUN that is accessible from within a Hyper-V virtual machine. We have implementing a working solution using BitLocker, using Windows Server 2012 on a Hyper-V Virtual Server which has iSCSI…
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cryptsetup cannot close mapped device

When I run: LANG=C cryptsetup --debug luksClose /dev/mapper/Pool-A it fails as follows: device-mapper: remove ioctl on Pool-A failed: Device or resource busy Device /dev/mapper/Pool-A is still in use. Command failed with code 16: Device or…
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LUKS Error During Boot

alg: drbg: could not allocate DRNG handle for ... I only see this error on the console during the boot process of virtual machines we create. EDIT: 2/5/16 - I see it on some bare-metal installations, too. (It does proceed to boot completely.) I…
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How to send "ATA Secure Erase" command to SSD?

A very good way to erase a SSD which have SED support is to change the password/key. But what to do with those that doesn't have SED support? This article says Fortunately it is possible to erase most SSDs, though this is closer to a “reset” than…
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Does LUKS also encrypt free space?

I have moved to Ubuntu 12 and chosen to use full disk encryption (encrypted LVM). So now I'm wondering: should I shred (eg: with secure-delete package, srm) the free disk space to remove any remnant windows might have left? Is free disk space…
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Approaches for Linux server disk encryption

What are the approaches available for fully encrypting a disk on a remote server (say, colocated in a datacenter)? On Windows, we can just turn on Bitlocker with a TPM. Then the server can reboot, and attacking either requires taking the machine…
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State of hardware-assisted disk encryption in Linux

I use dm-crypt to encrypt partitions. I am building a small office server from consumer (or pro-sumer) category hardware. It made me wonder, hardware-assisted encryption is a notion in the air for years, is it reality yet? The two crytical points of…
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Can servers with encrypted root filesystems be made reasonably highly available?

I have some servers I'd like to keep on encrypted disks, but I don't want to have to manually type a passphrase at every boot. I also don't want to keep the key on the machine unencrypted. TPM would be a natural fit here, but what if someone…
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Recommended drive encryption solution

I will soon be purchasing a number of laptops running Windows 7 for our mobile staff. Due to the nature of our business I will need drive encryption. Windows BitLocker seems the obvious choice, but it looks like I need to purchase either Windows 7…
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Cryptsetup luks - Check that kernel supports aes-xts-plain64 cipher

I encrypted a bunch of hard drives with cryptsetup luks encryption on CentOS 5. Everything was fine, until I upgraded my system to CentOS 6. Now I cannot mount the disks anymore. To mount with my keyphrase: sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdc1 d2 I…
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Determine if LUKS/dmcrypt key is present

I am writing a Chef LWRP to add a key to a LUKS container and I'm having difficulty coming up with a way to determine whether or not my key already exists. cryptsetup luksAddKey will happily add the same keyfile multiple times, so I can't simply…
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Windows XP Full Disk Encryption - What are the options?

I've been ask to look at full disk encryption software for our mobile users. We're running Windows XP SP3 PCs on a domain and my understanding is that we will not be upgrading to Vista and have no current plans to upgrade to Windows 7. This would…
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When to use Truecrypt, and when not to?

I have about 30 (this number will most likely grow over the next few years to 50 or more) unencrypted laptops that I have been tasked to encrypt (entire drive). These machines will be used off site regularly by my users. These machines are running…
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