Way back in the day -- back in March of two thousand-naught-eleven, I added a blog post on how to encrypt a partion using crypsetup and luks on RHEL. Its title, ironically enought was, RHEL, How to Encrypt a Partition Using Cryptsetup and Luks. Today we are going to talk about how to revert an … Continue reading RHEL6 – More on Cryptsetup and Luks — Removing Encryption
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RHEL – How to Encrypt a Partition using Cryptsetup and LUKS
Cryptsetup uses dm-crypt to encrypt a disk at the partition level. In RHEL, cryptsetup is used with Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS), a disk encryption specification. Mounting a LUKS encrypted partiton requires a passphrase, which can either be passed in a file or via the command line. Read more about dm-crypt here. Anyway to use … Continue reading RHEL – How to Encrypt a Partition using Cryptsetup and LUKS