LUKS: Formatting the Partition
Introduction When writing this tutorial, I've referenced the [2] Gentoo Linux guide and added some of my own observations and scripts. This guide should provide you with steps of how you can create an encrypted system partition on Linux, but it will also provide you with general observations about ...
Linux TPM Encryption: Initializing and Using the TPM
1. Initializing the TPM To secure our data we must first initialize the TPM. What we're actually doing is changing the settings of the hardware TPM chip module on the computer motherboard itself. First we must initialize the TPM physical chip with the tpm_clear command, which returns the TPM ...
Linux TPM Encryption: Enabling TPM in BIOS and Kernel
1. Introduction The TPM stands for the Trusted Platform Module, which is a secure microprocessor that can store cryptographic keys that are further used to encrypt/decrypt data. The following picture is taken from Wikipedia [1]: We can read more about the picture in [1]. We should just say that ...