Ubuntu Security :: Encrypt A USB Stick Partition?

Oct 28, 2010

I'm trying to think of the best way to encrypt a partition on my flash drive.

I plan on storing ssh/pgp keys on it for use on different computers (including school computers, where I won't have administrative access).

TrueCrypt is going to require admin access to decrypt and mount the partition, I think, so that's out.

Are there any other methods you all would recommend?

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Mar 14, 2010

Is there a way to encrypt your swap partition after installation?

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Apr 5, 2011

Is it better to use:

Code: -c aes-cbc-essiv -y -s 512 Or:
Code: -c aes-xts-plain -y -s 512

I've never encrypted a disk before; I'm following the Arch wiki (I'm a newbie, basically). Should I try and encrypt my swap partition (I've got 512 MB RAM, 1 GB swap)? Ideally, I'd like to make it so it's not feasible for someone (even a very skilled someone) to access my files (and system -- I'm encrypting /), but still make it fairly fast and usable for day-to-day operations. If it matters any, I'm using JFS.

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spoovy@peony ~ $ sudo cryptsetup -c aes-xts-plain -y -s 512 luksFormat /dev/sdb5
WARNING!
This will overwrite data on /dev/sdb5 irrevocably.
Are you sure? (Type uppercase yes): YES
Enter LUKS passphrase:
Verify passphrase:
device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument
Failed to setup dm-crypt key mapping for device /dev/sdb5.

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Jan 20, 2010

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Mar 14, 2010

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Jul 27, 2010

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Feb 16, 2010

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I just found a neat way to encrypt a file in Ubuntu 10.04.

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Once all that's done I hit enter and it adds .pgp to the end of whatever file just encrypted. The same basic method is used to Sign the file.

Does it sound as though what I said is correct and that the file I wanted to encrypt was indeed encrypted?

Can anyone crack my files without the passphrase? I'm sure it depends on the complexity and length of the passphrase.

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Apr 1, 2010

We have some script files on our linux servers. For security purpose our requirement is to keep these files encrypted . I mean when we open the files it will looks like as for example i am showing you one encripted file of iur server. how can i do this.

one encrypted files from our server:-

[utibaadm@AIRTELVTUD2_UVAS01server_monitoring]$cat SOUTH_DTH_MONITOR.sh
#!/bin/sh
skip=14
tmpdir=`/bin/mktemp -d ${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/gzexe.XXXXXXXXXX` || exit 1
prog="${tmpdir}/`echo "$0" | sed 's|^.*/||'`"

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Feb 11, 2010

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I know it's very simple to do this during the installation but I can't seem to find an option to do it after it.

Is there a way to do this?

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Apr 10, 2010

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