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Encrypt whole system? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 months ago by UnRelatedBurner@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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My laptop isn't under my supervision most of the time. And I'd hate it if someone were to steal my SSD, or whole laptop even, when I'm not around. Is there a way to encrypt everything, but still keep the device in sleep, and unclock it without much delay. It's a very slow laptop. So decryption on login isn't viable, takes too long. While booting up also takes forever, so it needs to be in a "safe" state when simply logged out. Maybe a way that's decrypt-on-demand?

I'm on Arch with KDE.

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[–] bruhbeans@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 months ago (9 children)

How old are we talking? If the CPU is >10 years old and/or some kind of ARM, it may not have hardware encryption acceleration, which means it'll happen in software. I did that once, it was horrible. lscpu |grep -i aes should probably tell you what you need to know.

[–] UnRelatedBurner@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago (7 children)

It does give me a result so I do have "aes". How can I use it?

We're talking an Intel i5-8350U. it has 16GBs of ram and 500GB of SSD.

[–] bruhbeans@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

You said you're on Arch, you'll want to go through their docs which are solid: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dm-crypt/Encrypting_an_entire_system

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