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Workstation imaging on top of full disk encryption

Is it possible to use imaging tools (e.g. Acronis Snap Deploy, or possibly SystemImager) to deploy workstation images to laptops that have PGP full disk encryption? How could I go about doing this? The specific FDE tool we use right now is…
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How to use Google Drive as secure storage on a linux server

since google dropped the price for storage recently I thought about using it at my storage servers too add storage capacity easily. What I found so far is the ability to mount the google drive into a fuse file system using google-drive-ocamlfuse.…
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Changing Disk Encryption key in CentOS 6.4

I checked the "encryption" checkbox in the Anaconda installer during CentOS 6 installation, which encrypts at the PV (Physical Volume) partition level. Now, for some security reasons, I want to change the current encryption key. Is there any way to…
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Can't mount ecrytpfs as a non-root user on Red Hat

I'm trying to mount a ecryptfs volume on Red Hat as a regular user. ecryptfs-utils is installed from source (repos only contain old versions). Mounting as root works normally, but trying with a regular user (who owns the mount) results in a mount:…
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Mounting encrypted drive/partition on Linux

I have a Laptop, on which the OS has got corrupted and gives a system32\config not found error. To recover my data, I can boot it using Knoppix but I am not able to mount my partition. My partition is NTFS encrypted with McAfee Endpoint encryption.…
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Decrease in disk performance after partitioning and encryption, is this much of a drop normal?

I have a server that I only have remote access to. Earlier in the week I repartitioned the 2 disk raid as follows: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/sda1_crypt 363G 1.8G 343G 1% / tmpfs …
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Does dm-crypt support journaling filesystem transactional guarantees?

I'm considering using ext4 on encrypted LVM (which uses LUKS and dm-crypt). Will the transactional guarantees in ext4's journaling be preserved? Bonus: where may I find authoritative information on this (besides the source)?
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Apache serving files from an encrypted drive returns a 403 forbidden error

I create a sparsebundle and mount it as a virtual drive for each development project I work on. This works great until I needed to add encryption to one of the projects for added security of my client's files. When encryption is on Apache returns a…
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OS reinstall on a machine with Whole Disk Encryption

I have a machine that has McAfee SafeBoot Whole Disk Encryption on it. If I don't have the safeboot password, can I boot from a OS installation disk, format the disk and reinstall the OS? Will that corrupt my Master Boot Record since that is also…
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How to encrypt document root of Apache and all MySQL databases?

I need it encrypted and be decrypted just only when apache started, so this is the plan: Boot computer. Decrypt /var/www and mysql databases files. Start apache. So maybe its the path not to use mountion encrypted containers like truecrypt do.
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CentOS / Redhat 6 Mount Encrypted Partition After Boot

I have an encrypted partition that I setup during install for CentOS 6 that I want to mount manually after boot. By default it prompts me for a password at boot time. I was able to get it to not prompt me for a password at boot by commenting the…
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Looking for centrally managed full-disk encryption product for Windows 7

Let me start this off by saying I've already evaluated and have planned to purchase SecureDoc Enterprise from WinMagic. However, due to billing issues (not price) I'm afraid I may not be able to make that purchase so I'm now scrambling to find a…
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Migrating xp laptops with encryption to Windows 7

We are starting to look at migrating our systems to Windows 7 from XP. I've been playing with MDT 2010 doing automated installs and using USMT. I haven't started looking at how migrating xp laptops with Guardian Edge encryption would work. Would the…
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What cipher is the "best" or better for LUKS?

I am looking for strong cipher for LUKS, currently I am thinking about SHA512, but encryption is not my cup of tea, so could you give me your hints, what are you using for encryption?
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Data encryption on VPS

I know there is no way to completely secure a running system, however I'd like to do do what ever is possible. I'm not sure how to phrase the question, but basically, I'd like to secure the data on the system, so noone would be able to access…
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