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At risk of being pedantic, technically it's device-mapper/dm-crypt that's doing the heavy lifting here... but I guess LUKS has become the popular name for the
by pengaru 6y ago
At risk of being pedantic, technically it's device-mapper/dm-crypt that's doing the heavy lifting here... but I guess LUKS has become the popular name for the whole pile due to its visibility.
- ayyy 6y agoAt the risk of being offtopic, this is exactly the type of pedantry that keeps me coming back here.
- rwmj 6y agoTo be even more pedantic: There's also a qemu block layer device that is compatible with LUKS and works in userspace (https://www.linux-kvm.org/images/8/8c/01x03-Daniel_Berrange-Securely_Integrating_QEMU_with_Open_Source_Virtualization_Technology.pdf https://www.linux-kvm.org/images/8/8c/01x03-Daniel_Berrange-... - page 13). And the cryptsetup tools / kernel has recently added support for Windows Bitlocker encryption as an alternative to LUKS, obviously only really appropriate if you deal with Windows images or need interop with Windows.