LUKS introduced
Security, confidentiality of data is becoming increasingly important in today's life. With the advent of the digital age, more and more data is digitized, in particular more about our data privacy is constantly generated, even we need to be saved offline keys and so on. And usually we use disk, USB flash memory, SD memory cards and other storage media, even if we have an offline store is still no guarantee that the storage medium is not lost, if you lose it for us, there could be catastrophic event. Therefore, these important data stored offline, encrypt again is very necessary.
LUKS (Linux Unified Key Setup) is a Linux disk encryption standards. By providing a standard disk formats, it can not only promote compatibility between releases, it can also provide secure management of multiple user passwords. Compared to existing solutions, LUKS all the necessary setting information stored in the header section partition information, the user is able to seamlessly transfer or migrate their data.
Disk partition encryption specification :
do not depend on disk-level encryption of the operating system.
Disk encryption tool
- Windows of DoxBox;
- The rear end of the dm-crypt;
- The front end of the cryptsetup;
- Microsoft bitlocker;
kali lasting encrypted USB installation
Experimental environment :
Kali: install in a virtual machine;
the USB 2.0 / 3.0 8G memory above;
Kali Linux ISO image file
1. First USB mapped to a virtual machine
requires a USB controller, according to the USB device selection and 2.0 / 3.0