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Questions - luks

LUKS and dm-crypt distinction responsibilities

Reading through the documentation of both dm-crypt and LUKS, I understand that LUKS is a format specification to allow FDE, and that dm-crypt is a dm target which allows encryption / decryption of wri...
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Jasper

linux

encryption

data-integrity

device-mapper

luks

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Lets start from the kernel part: Device mapper is a kernel driver that allows creating new block devices from existing ones. It provides multiple additional features like RAID, caching or encryption ...
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Vojtech Trefny

How do we run a key script in initramfs to unlock cryptsetup LUKS volume

Does anyone know how to unlock the LUKS encrypted partition using key script? The idea is to run the keyscript in order to retrieve the key stored in the TPM's NVram and supply that to the LUKS encryp...
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T08

linux

luks

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Unlocking multiple LUKS-encrypted volumes with a single password at boot (Gentoo, encrypted ZFS root, genkernel initramfs)

With this post I am sharing a solution with the community. I have a Gentoo system installed on a ZFS pool consisting of multiple encrypted devices. It is normally decrypted at boot as described in thi...
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D-FENS

encryption

gentoo

zfs

luks

initramfs

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I have come up with a patch for genkernel that allows for decrypting multiple volumes with a single password (save the file as /tmp/genkernel_multicrypt.patch): diff --git a/defaults/initrd.d/00-crypt...
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