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Howto use Cryptsetup with LUKS support. (Debian Linux).

This is a short howto to describe the basic usage of Device-Mapper, DM-Crypt, and Cryptsetup to mount and use encrypted partitions and container files.
This is partially in response to the recent articles about the numbers of USB flash thumbdrives that are regularly lost. If we learn [...]

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Wireless encryption stinks. It always has. Generally, the way I secure my wireless is first to engage MAC filtering (not at all secure, but at least filters out the newbies), then I engage an SSH tunnel to a trusted box @ home with the dynamic application-level port forwarding which allows the SSH server to act [...]

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From the NewScientist Tech section:
A technique for cracking computer passwords using inexpensive off-the-shelf computer graphics hardware is causing a stir in the computer security community.
Elcomsoft, a software company based in Moscow, Russia, has filed a US patent for the technique. It takes advantage of the “massively parallel processing” capabilities of a graphics processing unit (GPU) [...]

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