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Tutorial: Protecting Data with Encrypted Linux Partitions

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 1 comment
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We see the headlines all the time: "Company X Loses 30,000,000 Customer Social Security Numbers and Other Intimately Personal and Financial Data! Haha, Boy Are Our Faces Red!" And it always turns out to be some "contractor" (notice how it's never an employee) who had the entire wad on a laptop with (seemingly) a terabyte hard drive, which was then lost or stolen, but nobody is quite sure where or when.

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Sachankara ·
In the tutorial she formats the luks device with aes-cbc which is sensitive to watermark attacks. Instead she should have recommended the new lrw block cipher found in Linux 2.6.20 and newer.

Just replace aes-cbc-plain with aes-lrw-benbi. The only drawback is that you cannot use keys smaller than 256 bits.

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