I know the Ubuntu 9.04 alternate install CD has encryption capabilities but not the regular desktop installer cd. Given that the alternate cd has it, we could very well see encryption capabilities...

As far I know, the Ubiquity in BT4 PF does not support encryption. (Where the encryption option normally is, is not there.)

I still stand by my previous post. At the time I first set out to encrypt BT I was unable to find any other guides which dealt specifically with encrypting BT. In the process of figuring it out...

Excuse me wyze, instead of simply criticizing my guide you make some suggestions on how it could be improved. Referring to it as "a big bucket of fail" is in no way productive and gives you the...

Not necessarily. Others that experience the same error could find it, and the solution, through Google. There's no such thing as too much documentation (relatively speaking). ;)



Bash should be...

Ahh yes, another typo. I really ought to check over commands I type from memory. Thank you for pointing it out and I'm glad you got it working. :)

Truecrypt is able to do full disk encryption with Windows but not Linux. I believe this is done through the use of a giant container of sorts. Anyway, floyd is correct, Truecrypt will not work for us...

Glad to hear everything is working. :)

I am out of town again so I will look at forensics mode when I get back.

I'm wondering if there's a way to pipe the output of the cryptsetup command to a text file, but I don't that would do any good.

Maybe putting "stty echo" right before the cryptsetup command will...

So the encryption is working, just not on your laptop? I don't know what to tell you about that one. As I've said before, I know little to nothing about keymaps. Sorry. :o

It happens. ;)

I'm glad to hear you got it working and it runs at a usable speed. :)
The extra start up time is part of the price you have to pay to have your data encrypted; it's worth it though.

I think we have it licked now, in your initrd, on the cryptsetup command (line 387 in the casper file) you have...


cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/disk/a9f300c7-7156-44a3-be48-560fb189c296 casper-rw...

If I understand you correctly, your system is decrypting the filesystem.squashfs file and is able to boot; just not with changes? If so, that's half the battle.

The contents of casper.log should...

Try this one.

On the keymap subject, I don't know what else to tell you except to check if you have a bios setting that turns on number lock at boot.

It probably isn't gzip format. I'm out of town and I tried to make that initrd on my buddy's Windows laptop. I'll be home late tonight and I can post the correct one. Sorry about that.

As for...

Well it sounds like we have a lot of things to try. First off, (I should have done this in the first place) here's my initrd, You will, of course, need to extract it and put your uuid in and zip it...

I understand your frustration. I took me days of trial and error to get it working somewhat properly. I did my best to write the guide but it is still very confusing.

As for your error, when you...

Haha I'm really on a roll with these typo's here. :D NOW it's correct. Thanks again.

Sorry for the late reply. So much for email notification of replies to a subscribed thread. :rolleyes:
Anyway....


Sorry about that, I just fixed it. That's what I get for typing everything from...

The guide on encrypting usb installs of BT4 can be found here.

IF YOU ARE LOGGED IN, THE IS THE SECOND PART OF THE GUIDE. SEE THE POST BELOW FOR THE FIRST PART.


8.) Now that the initrd can mount the filesystem we need to make it mount the changes partition....

HI all, I recently wrote a guide on full disk encryption with hard drive installs on BT4 (It can be found here). Due to my usual paranoia about my data, it was great that I had my hdd install of BT4...

Thank you for the feedback navels. The encrypted USB is working but I'm not sure how well. While I feel it is perfectly usable, others may feel differently. Performance seems slightly slower than it...

One of the pitfalls with encrypting multiple drives/partitions is that you need to enter the password for each of them at boot even it is the same for all of them. (Someone once told me you could...

I've been running all my systems under luks-based full disk encryption for some time now. On my main desktop system I run compiz and play full HD videos at the same time as I have my typical twenty...