Luksformat Installation On A Debian, Ubuntu, Kali And Raspbian

Luksformat Installation On A Debian, Ubuntu, Kali And Raspbian

luksformat

disk encryption support – command line tools

Maintainer: Debian Cryptsetup Team



Section: admin

Install luksformat

  • Debian apt-get install cryptsetup-bin Click to copy
  • Ubuntu apt-get install cryptsetup-bin Click to copy
  • Kali Linux apt-get install cryptsetup-run Click to copy
  • Raspbian apt-get install cryptsetup-bin Click to copy

cryptsetup-bin

disk encryption support - command line tools

Cryptsetup provides an interface for configuring encryption on block devices (such as /home or swap partitions), using the Linux kernel device mapper target dm-crypt. It features integrated Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) support. This package provides cryptsetup, cryptsetup-reencrypt and luksformat.

cryptsetup-run

disk encryption support - startup scripts

Cryptsetup provides an interface for configuring encryption on block devices (such as /home or swap partitions), using the Linux kernel device mapper target dm-crypt. It features integrated Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) support. Cryptsetup is backwards compatible with the on-disk format of cryptoloop, but also supports more secure formats. This package includes support for automatically configuring encrypted devices at boot time via the config file /etc/crypttab. Additional features are cryptoroot support through initramfs-tools and several supported ways to read a passphrase or key.

Install the latest version of luksformat in Debian, Ubuntu, Kali and Raspbian from terminal. To install the luksformat just copy the above command for your OS and run into terminal. After you run the command it will grab the latest version of luksformat from the respository and install it in your computer/server.