Encrypted home partition in Linux
Have you ever wondered what would have happened if all the important data has been stolen from your mobile PC? For example the information about the confidential project of your company you have been working on for the last 2 years… A horrifying vision, isn’t it? Well, if you don’t want to let it come true, please consider encrypting your home drive. Here is how to do this.
This is what you will need to prepare your Linux computer for encrypting your home drive:
* DM-Crypt — open-source tool for encryption the whole HDD partition. It encrypts data before writing them on HDD. Available for kernel 2.6.4 and later.
* LUKS - (Linux Unified Key Setup) — standard HDD encryption system for Linux.
cryptsetup — enables simultaneous use of LUKS and DM-Crypt.
Necessary software download
The program you will need is cryptsetup with LUKS handling. In order to install it you may either use your distribution’s repositories or use the general method (compilation from sources).
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