Unlock your LUKS drive through USB or passphrase

Wed, 03 Jan 2024 23:00:00 +0100

It’s always advisable to keep your data as secure as possible. A great way of doing this is LUKS . Linux Mint for instance supports this out of the box as part of the installation process. Usually an encrypted drive can be unlocked using a passphrase which generally works fine but what if you want to use a more robust key? What if you want to automatically unlock a drive with a key located on a USB drive? I found several tutorials though they weren’t working as expected so here is my solution using Linux Mint.