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LUKS is the upcoming standard for Linux hard disk encryption. By providing a standard on-disk-format, it does not only facilitate compatibility among distributions, but also provide secure management of multiple user passwords. In contrast to existing solution, LUKS stores all setup necessary setup ... [More] information in the partition header, enabling the user to transport or migrate his data seamlessly. [Less]

Tomb is a system to make strong encryption easy for everyday use. A tomb is like a locked folder that can be safely transported and hidden in a filesystem. Its keys can be kept separate; for example, you can keep the tomb on your computer and its key on a USB stick or a remote SSH shell. Tomb is ... [More] written in code that is easy to review and links shared components: it consists of a ZShell script and desktop integration apps; it uses standard GNU tools and the cryptographic API of the Linux kernel (dm-crypt) via cryptsetup. [Less]

Integration component for LUKS and PAM. It allows the use of user credentials for unlocking a LUKS keyslot (instead of using a dedicated encryption passphrase).