I read that CBC-ESSIV is used as the default mode for LVM entire disk encryption. I want to use XTS mode instead. How do i select this when installing?
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The block cipher used by LVM disk encryption is unfortunately not something can be configured during the Ubuntu installer. Sorry. |
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If you're comfortable breaking out a little from the normal installation procedure, this guide will get you encrypted root and swap partition using XTS: http://blog.markloiseau.com/2012/05/ubuntu-aes-xts-plain64/ LVM is not specifically addressed, though. |
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