Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted drives, password generation and management howto, guide.

2024-05-14 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Tue, May 14, 2024 at 06:28:17AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Howdy, > […] > remember either, or write notes to remember them.  I also wanted to > avoid the desktop copy and paste, or clipboard, mechanism.  I'm not sure > how that data is stored in the clipboard and how good it is at erasing > it when I

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted drives, password generation and management howto, guide.

2024-05-14 Thread Dale
Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 7:28 AM Dale wrote: >> First, I needed to generate a password. > Honestly, I'd stop right there, and think about WHY you're encrypting > your disks, and WHY you need a password to decrypt them. There are > many use cases and threat models to consider.

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted drives, password generation and management howto, guide.

2024-05-14 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 7:28 AM Dale wrote: > > First, I needed to generate a password. Honestly, I'd stop right there, and think about WHY you're encrypting your disks, and WHY you need a password to decrypt them. There are many use cases and threat models to consider. I have a whole bunch of

[gentoo-user] Encrypted drives, password generation and management howto, guide.

2024-05-14 Thread Dale
Howdy, This is more of a howto or rough guide.  As most know, I have several encrypted hard drives, or sets of hard drives using LVM.  I don't even know how much data I have stored here at the moment.  I started a thread a while back about how to come up with and remember passwords.  I got some pr