LUKS

4 engineers on Hacker News describe using LUKS first-hand: 0 endorse it, 0 regret it, 1 are mixed.

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4first-hand users
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endorse 0mixed 1regret 0uses, no opinion

“The only usability quirk is the LUKS FDE decryption phase, where she has to enter in her password before the system starts.”

mixed · personal · 3 yr · JeremyNT · 2022-02-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“My local ZFS is plaintext on LUKS volumes and the remote Borg archives are encrypted with borg.”

neutral · personal · gorgoiler · 2022-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we use the built-in `luksErase` command to destroy the data in the key slots, then we overwrite the whole header area.”

neutral · production · maltfield · 2021-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“call LUKS to unlock the encrypted filesystem”

neutral · personal · CaliforniaKarl · 2018-09-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?