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I try not to mess with my my current windows desktop setup too much if I don't have to (mission critical). It's not on VM.
Would love to do it with LUKS/EXT4 if possible but it's not supported on windows (am I correct?)

If I use VC then I have to install it on both win and linux and also any additional machine I intend to decrypt with, that's quite unwieldy compare to LUKS. I also have lobotomized my current install to cripple spying and broke it to the point it can not update to support wsl.

Seems like bitlocker is a proper solution for the moment. Or just do two partitions (maybe two drives), encrypt one with LUKS, wipe everything unencrypted when done using it.

External drive encryption question in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

Linux	Windows	Preparation
LUKS	LUKS	no can do / unless WSL
LUKS	???	`cryptsetup`
LUKS	VeraCrypt	???
VeraCrypt	VeraCrypt	VeraCrypt GUI from either
???	BitLocker	Format with NTFS in Windows

I'm still a bit confused with veracrypt... The docs make it sounds like vc use its own format.
Can the drive be prepared with LUKS and then decrypt in windows with veracrypt? If not, I might just use bitlocker until I drop windows.

External drive encryption question in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That, I didn't think of. Still... I will eventually have to do it the linux way, might as well learn and familiarize with it now.

Forgot to mention that it will be quite a while before I can drop windows completely but for sure I'm not upgrading or doing another windows install.

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External drive encryption question (kbin.social)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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How should I do it if I want to...

Format external SSD to use with linux
Full drive encryption
Compatible with windows (temporarily)
Preferably do it with KDE GUI

Context: A linux noob. I got a new laptop earlier this year and uses it mainly for tinkering/playing with linux, get competent with it before dropping windows completely on my main desktop. There is a lot of stuff I want to move back and forth between those machines during this learning period.

My idea is to use an external SSD which when I'm done with windows, I can still use it to store work files or any sensitive stuff, so it will need encryption.

Saw a reddit thread saying I still need veracrypt, which I'm totally ok with on windows side but I prefer keeping everything simple on linux side (I only know it can be done without any extra package)

Extra question:
I can possibly store all works and sensitive data on encrypt external and leave root drive unencrypted. In that case, which file system should I use on which drive? Does it matter?

Thank you in advance.