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LUKS (Linux Unified Key Setup) is a disk-encryption specification. It is the standard for Linux hard disk encryption.

LUKS (Linux Unified Key Setup) is a disk-encryption specification. It is the standard for Linux hard disk encryption. LUKS stores all setup necessary setup information in the partition header, enabling the user to transport or migrate his data seamlessly.

Website: http://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Unified_Key_Setup

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LUKS hangs on CentOS running on Atom C3758 CPU

Whenever I try to setup LUKS on my CentOS install on a Supermicro A2SDi-8C-HLN4F motherboard (Intel ATOM CPU C3758), everything seems to work fine until the process completely freezes when creating the filesystem (ext4) or trying to mount the…
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How to require a password/key/secret supplied by human sysadmin (via an ssh login) for every mount of a LUKS-based volume?

Summary We want to support this scenario: if we sense any security threat that might expose our core data (all stored on a /home NFS mount from our NFS server), we immediately "hard" power off the NFS server. Any potential, successive, unauthorized…
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LUKS encryption on which layer?

Option1: Linux Partition -> LUKS -> LVM Option2: Linux Partition -> LVM -> LUKS Which stack is better from system load aspects? Background: On my Linux server (CPU AMD Opteron 6338P, LSI 3ware SAS / SATA-RAID controller with two 4TB HD in RAID 1, 64…
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What happens when an encrypted drive that is running (and thus decrypted) is unplugged?

Encrypted drives are usually decrypted at boot, so if the system is running live and the drive is unplugged while "hot" and plugged into another system will the data still be unencrypted? I may be misunderstanding the implementation here, but let's…
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how to restore a lost file on luks

I have a file that has been overwritten. It's a .odt and mixed up with another .odt file on same partition. LUKS fully encrypted. It is not the point to unlock the vulume an mount. But the file is corrupt, overwritter with other data. Any clues?…
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When was LUKS first released?

When was Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) first released--both as an open standard and later made available as an implementation with cryptsetup?
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LVM resize / full system encrypt (reinstall no possible)

Seen few questions on this, but the general answer was just reinstall. Although that is the best and easiest solution, this unfortunately is not possible in my situation. I was thinking of the following solution. current partition layout /dev/vda1 …
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