Encrypt external harddrive
lainchan / sec

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Elliot Alderson · 2018-06-25 10:06

What's the best way to encrypt your external harddrive, so that it's
still more or less convenient for you to use it?

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Turner · 2018-06-25 10:56

LUKS is pretty straightforward.  Alternatively you can use
TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt.

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Dujour · 2018-06-25 11:07

LUKS if you're on Linux. VeraCrypt if you are a pathetic windows pleb

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Masami Eiri · 2018-08-01 23:17

LUKS is probably a little better but i like the speed that VeraCrypt
provides. Speed of usage, and not necessarily operation.

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Switch · 2018-10-05 11:48

I don't want to encrypt and external hard drive, but just a local
folder.
Basically I just want a local folder to be password protected.
How would I do this?
Shell or GUI both are fine.

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Fred Nurk · 2018-10-06 12:54

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Is "chown -R root:root /folder/" sufficient? If not then VeraCrypt.

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Unspecified · 2018-10-06 15:53

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chown isn't encryption. It's changing the permissions.

if on BSD crypt/enigma seems to be the simplest way

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Shogun · 2018-10-06 17:39

>>6089
Changing the permissions is password protecting a folder in the
traditional sense. If you want encryption and real security, create an
encrypted container and mount it.

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Cat Mother · 2018-10-20 00:56

>>6089

Use tar to make an archive, then gpg -c that?

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Leto Atreides I · 2018-10-20 01:22

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https://github.com/dyne/Tomb is the easiest I believe. I've also used
encfs before and it worked well. This link has a lot of info on
encryption methods:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Disk_encryption#Stacked_filesyste
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