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FDE or Full Disk Encryption is the practice of or technology for encrypting an entire storage device, including empty space and temporary files, so that an attacker cannot easily gain information on which parts of the device holds active and/or useful data as well as to protect data after deletion.

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How do I encrypt Samsung 840 SSD with Bitlocker?

I need help encrypting my Samsung 840 Evo with Bitlocker. Here is my hardware: Samsung Evo 840 500GB hard drive (firmware EXT0BB6Q) Asus P8z77-v motherboard (BIOS v. 2104) Asus TPM chip - purchased from ASUS Estore Software: Windows 8.1 x64 PRO…
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SSD AES-256 hardware encryption - how to configure?

Recently, I bought Plextor M5 Pro with hardware full-disk AES-256 encryption. Installed it in my laptop, where I have no HDD BIOS password set. From what I read around it seems that the encryption is invisible for the OS and the HDD BIOS password is…
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Does Linux support self-Encrypted Disk API?

In this article it is shown how easy it is to bypass BIOS ATA passphrases, and it ends with that using the disks self-Encryption Disk (SED) API from within the OS would not give a performance hit. On Windows this API is called Microsoft eDrive. See…
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Disk encryption: advantages and drawbacks of hardware disk encription vs dm-crypt

I'm going to reinstall my system (Ubuntu) on a Samsung 840 pro SSD. This disk can do AES hardware encryption. I wonder what would be the drawbacks and/or advantages of taking this approach versus using LVM full disk encryption from these…
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How to verify a self-encrypted drive (SED) is really encrypted?

I have a Dell Precision M3800 that is supposed to have a self-encrypted hard drive. I'm running Windows 10. In the Storage Management screen, the disk claims to be a 'LITEONIT LMT-256L9M-41 MSATA 256GB SED'. I've set a hard drive password in the…
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Does the TPM affect performance of Windows BitLocker?

My question could be silly, but I haven't found confirmations on the topic Does using a TPM improve Windows BitLocker's performance than relying only on PIN/USB/token authentication? In my case I need to change motherboard to get TPM support, but I…
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How do I use "noatime" with FileVault 2 FDE on Mountain Lion?

I have an SSD installed in my MacBook Pro, and have successfully implemented a tweak that disables noatime on the boot drive: http://blog.alutam.com/2012/04/01/optimizing-macos-x-lion-for-ssd/#noatime This isn't where I originally found this hint,…
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How to install Ubuntu 15.10 on an encrypted RAID 1

I recently set up an Ubuntu 15.10 (desktop) on a encrypted RAID 1 and want to share how to achieve this as it didn't work out of the box and I didn't find any tutorial. So what I wanted to achieve was an Ubuntu running on an encrypted volume which…
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Using software to enable SSD's self-encrypting functionality on older motherboads

I'm considering buying Crucial M500 SSD drive with SED (self-encrypting drive; ATA password, TCG Opal 2.0, eDrive compliant). I'd like to use its SED functionality, but even after reading a bunch of articles, I'm still puzzled about the exact…
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Is it possible to check if a BIOS supports password entry for a self-encrypting SSD/harddrive?

I'm considering purchasing a SSD that has built-in hardware encryption / self-encrypting drive that provides its own full drive encryption. What can I do to check that the BIOS on my machine will support it? Background research so far Research on…
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Linux full disk encryption passphrase in sync with local user password

I'm trying to setup a Linux FDE where the passphrase is in sync with /etc/shadow file, similar to Mac's FileVault which uses the user's login password as the encryption pass phrase. Is it possible to have such a setup with LUKS ?
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How to use FDE SATA drive with USB cable

I have a Seagate Momentus FDE (full disk encryption) drive. It works fine in my laptop - after I enter the password. I would like to use this drive with a USB/SATA cable (like this). However, there doesn't seem to be any way to enter the…
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Integrated Full Disk Encryption for laptops?

I'm interested in a hardware based full disk encryption solution for a laptop. I've never really researched them before, so I'm not sure what to expect. (This is not a shopping list question). I'm finding a fair amount of related material for…
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How can I allow unattended decryption of encrypted disk on RHEL6?

I need to configure encrypted disk on RHEL6, but the key should be stored on the network server/database, encrypted disk should get decyrpted during boot or after boot using this key and without asking any passphrase.
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How to encrypt an external hard drive so a password is required only on computers other than my own?

I want to encrypt my external hard drive but I only want it to require a password if being accessed by a PC other than mine. This is because I have Backblaze set-up on my own PC and if Backblaze can't get passed the encryption, it won't back up the…
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