Questions tagged [encryption]
Questions about encryption such as home folder encryption, partition encryption and file encryption.
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After update: encrypted system boots to initramfs
I am running Ubuntu 22.04 on an Acer ES1-311 laptop upgraded with an SSD, After the recent auto-update my system won't boot anymore, and sends me to initramfs after entering my encryption passphrase.
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How can I install Ubuntu 22.04 on a system with an SSD and a hard drive using full disk encryption?
I would like to install Ubuntu 22.04 on a PC with an NVMe solid-state drive for the OS and a traditional hard drive for /home, using full disk encryption.
Before I buy the hardware, I have been trying ...
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Disabling linux user password prompts when accessing encrypted drives (polkit conf?)
I just created a new ext4 partition on a new drive and decided to use LUKS to encrypt it. I entered a password to use for encryption and the partition was created. So far, so good.
However, I have the ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 and Windows 10 Pro - Can I encrypt both OS's at the same time with Bitlocker + LUKS
I have alaptop with Ubuntu 22.04 and Win 10 Pro installed. Currently both are unencrypted as I had to remove Bitlocker to install Ubuntu alongside Win 10 Boot Manager. Is there a way I can use ...
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Dual Windows + Luks Lubuntu on same HDD. No password on boot
I installed Lubuntu Luks in the second partition of my HD0
Yet I don't understand why I have to enter the password just after turning on the computer, the first partition still contains an unencrypted ...
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Up To Date GnuPG Pinentry-gnome3 PassPhrase Caching Instructions Sought
I am on Ubuntu 20.04 Desktop. I am new to GnuPG, however reading this documentation:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GnuPrivacyGuardHowto and other howto's I have managed to correctly configure gpg ...
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Cryptsetup: waiting for encrypted source device
I just updated my bios as tech support told me to. Now when I boot up my laptop it says “ Cryptsetup: waiting for encrypted source device” where I am supposed to enter my pass phrase.
The screen then ...
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I have mistakenly missed the FDE during install of 20.04.4 ubuntu how do I completed FDE post install?
Good day and thank you for any feedback in advance. I very diligent in my OS setups. I cannot tell if I missed the advanced options to complete FDE during my install on 20.04.4 focal fossa.
I am ...
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Encrypted 18.04. install is not using the whole disk
I installed Ubuntu and chose encryption during the installation. The partition where dm_crypt-0 is sitting, is 398.5G big, and according to lsblk dm_crypt-0 is using the whole partition, but the ...
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Dropped in INTRAMFS shell when loading kubuntu after "vgkubuntu" not found error
I just had to do a sudo apt dist-upgrade after destroying my Kubuntu 21.10 installation thanks to my stupidity. Now after rebooting from recovery mode, no matter what kernel or if i boot in recovery ...
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"cryptsetup: Waiting for encrypted source device /swapfile" hangs indefinitely on boot (no initramfs prompt)
I'm on Ubuntu 20.04, and today I can't boot. I'm facing the message 'cryptsetup: Waiting for encrypted source device /swapfile' which appears to hang indefinitely.
I've seen several posts addressing ...
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How do I remove the "remembered password" on a luks usb drive? (22.04)
I have a USB drive which I encrypted with luks.
My Ubuntu machine is set to decrypt and open it without prompting for a password (As I have previously selected the "remember password" prompt)...
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LUKS encryption on remotely managed server?
When I installed latest Ubuntu Server few days ago I saw an option "Encrypt the LVM group with LUKS" and I'm wondering if I would set this option how could I decrypt disk remotely?
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How to generate a new recovery key for an encrypted ZFS NVMe SSD boot drive?
I have installed Ubuntu 22.04 via an installation USB on an encrypted ZFS NVMe SSD. Woot. Things are sweet.
Only, since this is my first time through, I did not savvy the need to copy the recovery key ...
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How to setup Ubuntu 22.04 (ZFS) for auto LUKS unlock on boot
I am looking for direction on how to auto-unlock an encrypted ZFS root partition on boot (no passphrase needed). This is for a server that will be headless and will need to be able to reboot without ...
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Do backups of the entire disk remember the specific partitions made?
I have to use LUKS to encrypt my entire hard disk, and in doing so, it will erase all data, so I must backup my disk first. I believe LUKS allows me to encrypt my entire disk, or do it by each ...
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LVM Encryption on Ubuntu Server
I have set up a small home server a few days ago and already configured some things. Unfortunately I have not selected the option Excryption of the LVM during the installation. Now I am looking for a ...
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External display sabotages LUKS decryption
Out of the blue my LUKS password of my Ubuntu installation (A) wasn't recognized anymore with
No key available with this passphrase
However another Ubuntu system (B) on the same Notebook decrypted ...
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Disk encryption password not working
I've tried to look it up but there wasn't much I could find on it. When resetting my computer after an update the disk encryption password didn't work after trying it who knows how many times. The ...
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Change Bootscreen with encrypted drive Ubuntu 22.04
Our Company will using in future our company logo in boot sequence or while the encryption is asking for password to unlock the laptop.
this will be necessary because when a laptop is stolen or ...
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Lost password for LUKS encrypted Ubuntu SSD. How do I reformat it?
The entire disk was encrypted with LUKS.
If it helps, I believe this may have been the tutorial I used: https://linuxconfig.org/ubuntu-22-04-enable-full-disk-encryption
There wasn't any important ...
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Best way to complete Full Disk Encryption with Lubuntu 22.04 [closed]
Edit: So I figured everything out, as described in detail here: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2476642
The Lubuntu 22.04 installer with the FDE option doesn't use a /boot-partition at all. ...
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LUKS/Cryptsetup possibly corrupted after hard shutdown
My laptop is a a Dell Precision 5560 running Ubuntu 20.04.3. It has LUKS disk encryption set up on it.
About a week ago, it completely froze (I'm not sure why) such that my only recourse to get it ...
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How to encrypt a partition and protect the key file
A Linux machine has a partition with sensitive data. The goal is to prevent one from booting up from a live usb and mounting the machine's hard drive and copying the data.
The partition is encrypted ...
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Installing Ubuntu without disabling Bitlocker encryption
Is there a way to install and dual boot Ubuntu / Fedora along with Windows 11 without disabling bitlocker encryption?
Possible approach
The other solution for continuing to use Bitlocker extending ...
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How to Configure Ubuntu 22.04 (ZFS) for auto LUKS unlock on-boot via USB key
Bit of a tricky one. 100 bounty up for grabs!!
Edit: bounty expired. soz.
Upon finding an answer to this question, this will be formalised into an article / howto for the internet to benefit from, as ...
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How to setup 2 HDD into RAID 0 + LUKS + EXT4?
I need some guidance, preferably good links to documentation or even the exact commands on how to setup my new hard drives into:
2 HDD disks (2 partitions rather) -> RAID 0 -> LUKS -> Ext4
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How to install over existing installation on an encrypted filesystem?
Is there a way to configure the Ubuntu installer to re-install over an existing Ubuntu installation on an encrypted filesystem?
# lsblk
nvme0n1 259:0 0 1.8T 0 disk
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Deleted initrd.img and vmlinuz
Running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and I accidentally deleted initrd.img of ONE kernel and vmlinuz of the OTHER kernel. I can not boot the OS up, not even in recovery mode. How do I restore either initrd.img or ...
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Which hard disk encryption is in use?
how can I find out, which hard disk encryption is used on my machine? When I boot, it says: Please unlock disk nvme0n1p3_crypt. I have the password, but the computer was set up by someone else and I ...
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Decrypt user home after installing Ubuntu 22.04
I have a laptop with two mount points, one with the system (/) and another with the /home folder. My user folder in /home was encrypted with Ubuntu 20.04.
This morning I re-installed the system with ...
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Can't access backup on LUKS external HDD
I encrypted a 1TB external hard drive with LUKS when formatting using Disks and used it for backups with Grsync. I had to wipe my hard drive, and now I want to restore all my files from the external ...
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Recover files from encrypted drive after erasing and reinstalling Ubuntu
I had ubuntu 21.10 and upgraded to 22.04 sadly this broke a lot of things so I wanted a fresh install. Using the ubuntu installer I erased the drive, installed ubuntu 22.04 on the same hard drive and ...
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What disadvantages are there to encrypting an entire hard drive or a home directory?
I am planning on installing Ubuntu on my computer. I studied the installation instructions, and I discovered that one of the steps is to select whether the Ubuntu system will be encrypted. I ...
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Encrypt the home directory in Ubuntu 22.04
I am upgrading my home server with Ubuntu 22.04 and I was surprised to find that there is no option to encrypt home directory as it was in Ubuntu 16.04. I could only choose either to use LVM and ...
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Storage partition has become 'Bitlocker' type
I was running a windows 10 system with a storage partition. I used disk manager to shrink my C: drive and create a new D: partition for storage. I left all the windows stuff on C: and used D: for all ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 SSH the RSA key isn't working since upgrading from 20.04
Up until last week I was running Ubuntu 20.04 happily, and then over the weekend decided to back everything up and install 22.04. I've had a couple of teething issues which I've solver, however I'm ...
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Can windows viruses affect my encrypted linux partition on the same disk?
Can Windows viruses affect my encrypted Linux partition on the same disk? I just want to use Windows but I am concerned.
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How do I auto-mount a LUKS disk at login WITHOUT unmounting it at logout?
So I have an external LUKS-encrypted disk connected to my machine, and I want to automatically mount it after I log in. After some Googling I found pam_mount, and it does exactly what I want, except ...
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Auto unlock encrypted laptop at startup
I have a laptop with fully encrypted Ubuntu 22.04 (except /boot). If possible I would like to unlock it automatically at startup whenever it stands on its place at home (and not whenever it is ...
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Should Ubuntu 22.04 ZFS with encryption also encrypt the data partion?
I did a clean install of ubuntu 22.04 and I choose ZFS with encryption.
Now when I check the partitions, I see that only the EFI and SWAP partitions are encrypted and my data partition is not. Is this ...
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Recover files / flashed Ubuntu (password protected) from USB Stick
i accidentally flashed (with Etcher or Win32DiskImager) the wrong USB stick. On this stick was my portable Ubuntu 20.04 LTS installed. I forgot to unplug the Stick and flashes Raspbian OS on the ...
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Ubuntu autoinstall with TPM2/LUKS auto-decrypt
I'm deploying Ubuntu 20.04 using the new autoinstall method. My deployment process works and we are encrypting the root volume with LUKS.
I wan't to setup auto-decryption of the root volume on boot ...
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How to set user interface language for user with encrypted home?
After encrypting home directory by means of ecryptfs tool specified UI language is not applied after system restart.
If user in the system only one the whole system UI can be changed to needed one. ...
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Do I have to check the fingerprint of new received OpenPGP public key, if it has been sent in a signed and encrypted email from a verified source?
It is well know that beginning an email relation with PGP (aka GnuPG or OpenPGP) encryption, both sides A and B have to exchange their public keys. The very first step can't be done by encrypted mail, ...
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Full disk encryption - password prompt automatically shut down after 5 minutes
I'm using laptops and they do start up when the lid opens - it is nice and I like it.
However sometimes the lid opens while the laptop is in the bag. It then boots to the password prompt. And when I ...
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sda3_crypt: cryptsetup failed after 20.04 to 22.04 upgrade
I was running 20.04 and used sudo do-release-upgrade -d to upgrade to 22.04.
Everything seemed good and I was prompted to reboot, upon doing so I get the usual encrypted password entry screen but upon ...
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How to pipe credentials to cryptroot-unlock for automatic LUKS unlock on boot
My root partition is encrypted with LUKS so on every boot I get prompted for the passphrase, I've installed dropbear-initramfs so that I can SSH in and provide the passphrase headlessly with "...
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2 Questions about GPG signing and decryption
Is it true that every time you sign a document, file, repository, package, email, etc. it becomes encrypted so that you need to verify it AND decrypt it?
If so, how come you don't have to decrypt ...
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Problem while booting the system
While booting the system I end up with the following message on the screen:
1.264668) Integrity: Problem loading X.509 certificate -65 1.604188) ahci 0000:00:17.0: failed to start port 0 (errno=-12)
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