Major Linux security hole gapes open

Posted by bob on Nov 15, 2016 11:50 PM EDT
ZD Net; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols 		Mail this story
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The security hole this time is with how almost all Linux distributions implement Linux Unified Key Setup-on-disk-format (LUKS). LUKS is the standard mechanism for implementing Linux hard disk encryption. LUKS is often put into action with Cryptsetup. It's in Cryptsetup default configuration file that the problem lies and it's a nasty one.

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