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asking out of curiousity: what benefits does encryption have here?
as long the server runs everything is decrypted right? so you are encrypting for the case when someone actively steals your hardware?
edit: stealing as in taking away. but this would mean accessing during runtime is nonetheless possible in a decrypted way?
In addition to drives being safer to replace and sell, encryption at rest should also protect against theft. So the scenario being someone taking the server or its drives. At least for me encrypting the drives gives a bit more peace of mind seeing as credentials for various accounts aren’t easily retrieved from the disks.
But yeah, this does not protect from data being read at runtime
luks will also prevent or uphold the encryption if e.g. the power is pulled?
+this means that if someone breaks in, cuts the cables during running decrypted the data is still safe?
Yes, exactly
noice thanks.