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The initial setup is definitely easy, but I wish additional setup would have a graphical interface. Notably, changing or removing a passphrase, both of which sh
by input_sh 6y ago
The initial setup is definitely easy, but I wish additional setup would have a graphical interface. Notably, changing or removing a passphrase, both of which should be tucked away somewhere in the settings.
Your current options are gnome-disks and cryptsetup, and the former simply didn't work with long passphrases last time I dabbled with it.
It's also quite difficult to encrypt an existing setup without formatting the drive. You'd need to unmount your root partition, and since you can't do that from a running system, you'd need to boot off of a USB stick first. BitLocker is definitely easier in that regard.
- kadoban 6y agoI stopped using it recently, but cryptsetup (with luks if it matters) definitely allows passphrases. I think my longest was ~50 characters? Not sure if you were going beyond that. I can't seem to find any old (or new) complaints about it limiting, or anything about a fix for same. You sure it was that?
- input_sh 6y agoMy mistake, I wanted to write that gnome-disks struggled with longer passphrases, not cryptsetup. I've edited my comment above to fix that mistake.