Thursday, November 20, 2014

How To Create A LUKS Device In Linux?



LUKS (Linux Unified  Key Setup) is a standard for hard disk encryption. This is the native Linux (Red Hat variants) utility to perform hard drive encryption to protect data. To get this done, install the required package if not installed. The package needed is "cryptsetup-luks". Once this is done, the "cryptsetup" command would be available to use.