Encrypted Partitions on Linux using LUKS and LVM

Resources

March 1, 2008

I am to give this presentation at the Chicago GNU/Linux Users Group. I originally gave a similar presentation at IIT's ACM Chapter for an installfest presentation. I am currently running a similar installation on my notebook computer.

• Slide Presentaion
• Hard Drive Preparation Script - I wrote this script to prepare my hard drive using LVM and encryption. I then run arch's setup program.

Further Reading

• LUKS - Linux Unified Key Setup - LUKS Homepage
• LVM HOWTO
• Arch Wiki: System Encryption with LUKS for dm-crypt - I stole most of my information from this resource.
• Gentoo Wiki: System Encryption DM-Crypt with LUKS - Gentoo was the first distro to support LUKS encryption seamlessly.
• Lest We Remember: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys - Princeton reseach paper describing how to obtain encryption keys out of memory after the target computer has been shut down.