Information Security

Disk encryption using cryptsetup

Disk encryption is used to encrypt the entire hard disk or a thumb drive in order to secure and protect the information contained within from prying eyes. For this exercise, we shall be using the program called cryptsetup to encrypt a thumb drive.

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These instructions can also be extended to hard-disks for full-disk encryption.
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