Robin Röper robin-rpr
huyanhvn
/ enable-luks-howto
Created
July 25, 2016 18:12
Enable LUKS disk encryption with a key file
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| # Create strong LUKS key | |
| openssl genrsa -out /root/luks.key 4096 | |
| chmod 400 /root/luks.key | |
| # Fill random data to the device | |
| shred -v --iterations=1 /dev/xvdb | |
| # Format device | |
| echo "YES" | cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/xvdb --key-file /root/luks.key |