How To Use Linux LUKS Full Disk Encryption For Internal / External / Boot Drives

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[praecorloth]

2:10 "What's the easiest way to get around LUKS?"

Only appropriate response: "Good LUKS with that!"

[jamescarson]

This video just blew me away. i switched to Linux last week from Windows, and this OS which is user involved, is very interesting and fun working in a more hands-on fashion.

[dannyism]

Finally a video that actually explains the technology, rather than just spoonfeeding me commands to copy into the terminal.

[BangBangBang.]

I would be interested in the remote key video.

I've been in the industry for a long time and thought I was retired. Your videos keep me one foot inside the industry. I just needed a career to pay the bills and avoid IT burnout so I work a 9-5 and manage a few servers for customers.

[example]

Ticked every checkbox in the lesson plan. Could/should be first video lesson in any Linux Certification syllabus. Great work.

[notpublic]

Yay! Nice to see a video on LUKS, cheers.

[HerveLouis]

Wow thank you so much for this breakdown. This is more info than I was looking for but definitely what needed.

[TVJAY]

I would love to see more videos about this, especially the scripts you talked about.

[broadrama]

7:40 yes please make a video about that :)
Thank you

[fujinaichannel]

Great informative video. Thanks! This helped me a lot.

[ari-athbadminton]

Impressive overview. Thanks you so much for the share.

[michaelmueller]

awesome video! ty! i finally understand!

[yotam]

Would love to see an example of:
0. partiitioning with encryption inside a "live" system running from a (usb) .iso [x]ubuntu image,
1. running the live-installer,

2. performaing necessary post-live install steps.

[araa]

I once encrypted a 2TB hard drive with a hidden partition. After being away for 2 years I have completely forgotten the password and all my data of 2 years are forever lost to me.

Lesson learned, never try making a password out of a random subtitution cipher you came up with one random afternoon thinking that you'll remember the method after 2 years.

[ericlawrence]

if u hold down the ctrl key and roll your mouse wheel up... you will zoom into some mode where we can read the tiny letters instead of seeing a tiny thing and a bunch of background and white blank area. Squint-mode makes teaching harder. Would also be smart to change your base font to the most readable one possible like Ariel. Then your videos would be at least 20% more awesome!!! Many of us are OLD.

[colt]

Do you have a video showing how to backup a luks encrypted drive to a synology device or freenas?

[Wehelpuglitch]

So I am running hyper-v with a few virtual machines. Should I leave the main hv boot drive decrypted and only encrypt the data drives?

Right now I have it to encrypt on boot so the server itself can’t boot to prevent any physical access but it can get challenging to do updates remotely.

[ejbully]

Hmmm a dedicated keyserver would be interesting... thanks

[freebeenergy]

Can I change the name of the container in /dev/mapper, on an installed distribution?

[TheLtrance]

Can you do a video showing how to boot from a flash drive then the flash drive unlocks the hard drive to boot? I'd like a plausible deniability situation where you could plug in a red flash drive to get to one operating system and a blue flash drive to get to another operating sytsem