I don't even know how to do it
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yes. if you live in a country without democracy. it is the only way to protect yourself and your data from nsa agent kicking your door.
Yes because my distro also have encrypted /boot included
I don't but admittedly I don't do much stuff on my laptop that's super secure. it's mainly for gaming and the odd programming project.
I encrypt my desktop and laptop but not my servers. On desktop, that excludes drives that aren't my OS/boot drive.
Mostly I don't, but I want to start to. I only have one laptop encrypted and of course I keep my phones encrypted.
I encrypt my home folder and Windows install just in case someone breaks into my house and steals my computer. Super annoying entering my password each boot though.
I encrypt my laptop and desktops and I think it’s worth it. I regret encrypting my servers because they need passwords to turn on. I couldn’t figure out how to handle it when away.
Do your servers have TPM? Clevis might be the way to go; I use it on my Thinkpad and it makes my life easy. If the servers don’t have TPM, Clevis also supports this weird thing called Tang, which from what I can tell basically assures that the servers can only be automatically decrypted on your local network. If Clevis fails, you can have it fall back to letting you enter the LVM password.
I have not tried any of those three things: TPM, Clevis, or Tang. Thanks for recommending.
I tried to setup a keyfile on /, /boot, and /root.
I tried a keyfile on a usb
I also tried to use dropbear to allow ssh unlock.
Sadly these didn’t work and drove me crazy for two nights.
With initramfs and dropbear you can make the password prompt accessible over ssh, so you can enter the password from anywhere.
Edit: For debian it is something like
- install dropbear
- configure dropbear for initramfs
- generate key pair
- generate initramfs
- You are done.
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I don't, I didn't do it back then and I ended up using this system for much longer than I thought I would(4+ years). I want to do it next time but I don't feel like reinstalling just for that.
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Absolutely. LUKS full disk encryption. Comes as an opt-in checkbox on Ubuntu, for example.
And I too cannot understand why this is not opt-out rather than opt-in. Apparently we've decided that only normies on corporate spyware OSs need security, and we don't.
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I don't do it for my desktop because 1) I highly doubt my desktop would get stolen. 2) I installed Linux before I was aware of encryption, and don't have any desire to do a reinstall on my desktop at this time.
For my laptop, yes, I do (with exception of the boot partition), since it would be trivial to steal and this is a more recent install. I use clevis to auto-unlock the drive by getting keys from the TPM. I need to better protect myself against evil maids, though - luckily according to the Arch Wiki Clevis supports PCR registers.
Yes absolutely, it is the building block of my security posture. I encrypt because I don’t want thieves to have access to my personal data, nor do I want law enforcement or the state to have access if they were to raid my house. I’m politically active and a dissident so I find it vital to keep my data secure and private, but frankly everybody should be doing it for their own protection and peace of mind
I don’t have FDE (BitLocker) enabled on my Windows 11 gaming PC. It sits in my house and has nothing on it but video games and video game related shit. I don’t even have my password manager installed for logging in to Steam, GoG or whatever other launcher. I manually type passwords in from the vault on my phone if the app doesn’t support QR code login like discord. Also I paid for this ridiculous m.2 nvme drive, I’m not going to just give up iops bc i want my game install files encrypted.
I don’t use FDE on my NAS. Again it doesn’t leave my house. I probably should I guess, bc there is some stuff on there that would cause me to have industry certs revoked if they leaked, but idk I don’t. Everything irreplaceable is backed up off site, but the down time it would take to rebuild my pirated media libraries from scratch vs just swapping disks and rebuilding has me leery.
I have FDE enabled on both my MacBooks. They leave the house with me, it seems to make sense.
I don’t use FDE on Linux VMs I create on the MacBooks, the disk is already encrypted.
My iphone doesn’t have the option to not use FDE I don’t think.
I use encrypted rsync backups to store NAS stuff in the cloud. I use a PGP key on my yubikey to further encrypt specific files on my MacBooks as required beyond the general FDE.
Of course, I'm paranoid and don't trust the US government. Or any government really. "First they came for _____" and all that; Id rather just tell them to pound sand immediately instead of get caught with my pants down.
Yes. I have sensitive info in my PC (work credentials) and in the case of a break-in, last thing I want is to jeopardize my job.