Issuing the command without -c and -s runs the benchmark for a number of different choices. In essence, the supplied passphrase by the user is combined with a salt and hashed a specified number of rounds.
This key stretching makes the password more secure against brute force attacks. The default is sha and can depending on taste be changed to another secure hash algorithm. The total number of iterations is determined by the speed of the current hardware and can be influenced by setting the number of milliseconds that shall be spent in PBKDF2 passphrase processing by --iter-time.
To increase the default from 2s to 3s and use sha one could for example use:. Use a reasonably long passphrase use, e.
Additional protection against brute force attacks can be achieved by setting up a an external USB flash drive to store essential decryption information like a keyfile, or the LUKS header itself. The flash drive then has the equivalent function of a physical key; opening the encrypted partition is only possible if both, flash drive and passphrase, are provided.
However, this comes with a significant downside in terms of complexity, for example for setting up full disk encryption, or potential to lose decryption keys by losing the USB flash drive. It is possible to encrypt a partition with detached LUKS header where all information about password derivation is stored that is stored at physically different location, e.
This leaves an attacker that is not in possession of the flash drive with no information about key derivation and encryption algorithms used. This makes brute force attacks potentially more difficult. The following commands first create a file luks-header with a fixed size of 5MB. Then, a detached LUKS header is written to the file. See the dm-crypt wiki page for further information on how to use cryptsetup luksFormat , or cryptsetup open commands.
The more traditional approach to use a USB flash drive is to store a GnuPG encrypted keyfile that contains sufficient entropy on it. Such a key file is readily supported by genkernel. Multi-key compatibility mode. This is the device that is going to be used as backend and contains the encrypted data.
Number of optional parameters. Block discard requests a. TRIM are passed through the crypt device. The default is to ignore discard requests. Now you can be sure that no one will get past your data that it is burn within the single file which is entire file system in LUKS encryption, just make sure to unmount and close encrypted. Veracrypt [ the fork of truecrypt that was created to provide tougher security than truecrypt used ] is still alive and well. It also still provides features like hidden containers within containers which luks does not.
The kernel provides you encryption out of the box, also the security audit report of TrueCrypt showed couple vulnerabilities that was easy to exploit and others marked as critical and high. None of the TrueCrypt forks has managed to fix all of the vulnerabilities mentioned in the audit report so far. Until they are fixed, you will be shooting yourself in the foot. The hidden container isn't really hidden as if anyone has physical access to your drive and is observing it will notice that there used space and they can spot exactly which sectors have been used.
On the other hand it seems you either haven't read the whole tutorial here or came to troll, because with LUKS as it was stated at the end of the tutorial you can create whole file system in LUKS encryption within prefixed file size, and you may recall it container. Note that for all authenticated modes you should use random IV , so the per-sector metadata space is divided into two parts: sector authenticated tag and persistent random IV.
The default backward compatible sector size for dm-crypt is always bytes. Size can be in range - bytes and must be power of two. Virtual device will announce this size as minimal IO size and logical sector size. Dmsetup is used to create and remove devices, get information about devices or reload tables that means changing the mapping while the device is in use.
Usually this tool is only used for low-level access to dm device, example here is mentioned just to show how the low level parameters works. Always prefer using cryptsetup if possible. To create device and specify mapping table, use this command:. You can check the full mapping table using dmsetup table with optional --showkeys parameter.
You can put a binary key blob into kernel keyring, here test-key into user keyring. In a real application it is perhaps better to use the process keyring that has the same lifetime as the process. Then we can reference this key in the dm-crypt table and optionally destroy key in keyring after it is configured:.
Cryptsetup utility support several modes. Plain mode is just equivalent of direct configuration of dmcrypt target with passphrase hashing but without on-disk metadata. LUKS Linux Unified Key Setup is now the preferred way to set up disk encryption with dm-crypt using the cryptsetup utility, see cryptsetup project page. If you want to use LUKS on-disk metadata with default cipher, use. The DMCrypt page is written and maintained by Milan Broz with help of other project users and developers.
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