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Well, my variation of the Mille Feuille.
There are certainly many pastries and desserts I love and regular readers of this blog will know that I do have a very sweet tooth. However, I would say I have a kind of top 5 (ummm ... top 10, 15, 20!) and if I was ever to kick the bucket and had one last wish, I think I would definitely wish to have all my top 5 (10, 15, 20) spread out in front of me so I could indulge my sweet tooth one last time. Without a guilty conscious, no repents and no calorie counting.
One of the items on the table would be the Mille Feuille. I just love this flaky cream filled pastry. Layer upon layer of delicious bites. As I spent a larger part of my younger life growing up in some grand hotels with excellent cuisine, I also was lucky enough to be able to savor some great desserts. The Swiss pastry chef at the Sheraton in Doha was an ace! He made the most tempting Mille Fueille ever. It was his chocolate Mille Fueille that had me go into a frenzy every time. One of the best moments of my life was when he surprised me on my 16th birthday with a Mille Fueille cake. It was incredible.
So, when The Domestic Goddess told us to make The Sweetest Thing to satisfy our craving for this round of Sugar High Friday, which actually is back home with its creator, I kind of already had a good idea of what I would be doing - a chocolate Mille Fueille.
OK, so you all are probably looking at the picture and thinking "Where did she hide that chocolate?" Right? Well don't bother looking - because there is no chocolate there.
I decided to play around a little. I thought I can do chocolate anytime, but it would be such a shame not to use the bounties of summer. Fresh fruit and berries were literally shouting at me to be creative with them. The puff pastry was covered thanks to this recipe. I had plenty left over in the freezer. With a rough idea in my mind I set of to the Farmers Market.
I returned with a huge crate of fresh juicy self-picked strawberries and with a perfect idea of how my Mille Fueille was going to look.
Strawberries scream summer to me. Nothing compares to popping a juicy strawberry that has been ripened to perfection in the early summer sun. Strawberries, however, are a lot more than satisfying that berry sweet tooth. They are filled with tons of health benefits, making it a nutritious fruit for the mind and the body.
Strawberries contain several nutrients, with vitamin C heading the group. In fact, one cup of fresh strawberries provides about 88 milligrams of ascorbic acid, which more than meets the Recommended Daily Dietary allowance of 45 milligrams for the average adult. Vitamin C is well retained when the strawberries are handled carefully. Capping, injuring, cutting, or juicing, however, will reduce the vitamin content.
They also contain significant levels of phytonutrients and antioxidants, which fight free radicals. These antioxidant properties are believed to be linked to what makes the strawberry bright red. Free radicals are elements that can damage cells, and they are thought to contribute to the formation of many kinds of cancer.
In addition to vitamin C, strawberries also provide an excellent source of vitamin K and manganese, as well as folic acid, potassium, riboflavin, vitamin B5, vitamin B6, copper, magnesium, and omega-3 fatty acids.
Strawberries are low in calories with one cup of unsweetened strawberries having only 55 calories.
The first thing that generally comes to the mind when strawberries are mentioned is strawberry and cream. However, strawberries are so versatile they can be used in baked goods, salads, beverages, dipped, but they taste best when eaten plain.
Unfortunately, strawberries are quite perishable. So it is advisable to purchase fresh strawberries only a few days before they are to be eaten. When strawberries are in season locally this is rarely a problem. But at other times of the year, it may be necessary to make due with frozen strawberries, which lose much if not all of their nutrition.
Choose strawberries that are plump, firm, free of mold and have a deep red color. Unlike other fruits, strawberries do not continue to ripen after they are picked, so choose the ripest and reddest strawberries. These will provide the best taste and offer the highest nutrient density. Often medium sized strawberries are sweeter and more flavorful than larger ones. When buying pre-packaged strawberries, make sure that the berries have not been packed too tightly. This could cause them to be crushed or otherwise damaged.
Before using or storing, sort through the strawberries and separate the soft ones from the firm, fully ripe berries. Discard any mushy or spoiled berries. The best way to store them is in a colander in the refrigerator. This will allow the cold air to circulate around them. Do not cover them. Remove caps from strawberries only after washing.
Prepare strawberries for serving by rinsing with caps still attached under a gentle spray of cool water; pat dry with a paper towel. Removing the caps before washing will cause the water to break down the texture and flavor inside the berries. Wash the berries just before you plan to use them.
Puff pastry, strawberries - check, check. For the cream I thought I would do something similar the the cream I used in this dessert. With all this in my head I set out to make my own Mille Feuille creation.
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A small handful flour
3 tablespoons icing sugar
250g mascarpone
250g Quark
1 vanilla bean - insides scraped
100g icing sugar
zest and juice of 1 lime
200g fresh strawberries - coarsely chopped
Pre-heat the oven to 220 degrees C. Prepare a baking tray, by lining it with a sheet of baking paper. Keep your second baking tray nearby.
To make the puff pastry circles spread the dough on a floured counter top and roll into a large enough rectangular form. Using a cookie cutter, small tart form or a glass, cut approx. 10 to 12 circular forms. Place each circle on the baking tray lined with baking paper. Cover with another sheet of baking paper. Using the second tray, place this on top of the tray with the pastry circles to weigh them down. Bake the circles for 8-10 minutes. Take out, remove the tray and the baking paper from the pastry, which should be golden and crispy.
Sprinkle each circle with some icing sugar. Using the grill function of your oven allow the sugar to caramelize on the puffy pastry circles. This normally takes just a couple of minutes so make sure you keep a close watch, otherwise they'll burn quickly. Take out of the oven, flip over, sprinkle this side with icing sugar and once again caramelize under the grill. Take out and allow to cool.
In a large mixing bowl whisk together the mascarpone, quark, vanilla, lime zest and juice into a smooth cream. Gently fold in the strawberries. Do not mix too vigorously or else the strawberries will get mushy.
To assemble your treat, spread a nice helping of the cream and strawberries on one of the caramelized puff pastry circles. Cover with a second circle and ever so gently press it down to fix together.
Serve immediately and fresh.
Et voila!
My take on the Mille Feuille.
Yes, this satisfies all my cravings for a sweet flaky pastry with a creamy filling and fruity berries. How awesome is that? Both Tom and Soeren just loved these little weekend treats. The recipe makes a perfect amount of 5 or 6 and unbelievably they disappeared really fast. I was lucky I could get a few shots of these. To really enjoy the crispy flaky texture of the puff pastry, they must be eaten on the same day otherwise, the pastry turns soggy.
Hope you enjoy them!
More strawberry sensations:
Refreshing: Strawberry Frozen Yogurt
Strawberry Kisses - Strawberry Almond Muffins
Fruity - Strawberry Mango Jam
A dessert with a twist - Strawberry Asparagus Salad with Orange Filets
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Data-at-rest encryption
This article discusses data-at-rest encryption software, which on-the-fly encrypts / decrypts data written to / read from a block device, disk partition or directory. Examples for block devices are hard drives, flash drives and DVDs.
Data-at-rest encryption should only be viewed as an adjunct to the existing security mechanisms of the operating system - focused on securing physical access, while relying on other parts of the system to provide things like network security and user-based access control.
Why use encryption?
Data-at-rest encryption ensures that files are always stored on disk in an encrypted form. The files only become available to the operating system and applications in readable form while the system is running and unlocked by a trusted user (data in use or in transit). An unauthorized person looking at the disk contents directly, will only find garbled random-looking data instead of the actual files.
For example, this can prevent unauthorized viewing of the data when the computer or hard-disk is:
- located in a place to which non-trusted people might gain access while you are away
- lost or stolen, as with laptops, netbooks or external storage devices
- in the repair shop
- discarded after its end-of-life
In addition, data-at-rest encryption can also be used to add some security against unauthorized attempts to tamper with your operating system – for example, the installation of keyloggers or Trojan horses by attackers who can gain physical access to the system while you are away.
You will still be vulnerable to:
- Attackers who can break into your system (e.g. over the Internet) while it is running and after you have already unlocked and mounted the encrypted parts of the disk.
- Attackers who are able to gain physical access to the computer while it is running (even if you use a screenlocker), or very shortly after it was running, if they have the resources to perform a cold boot attack.
- A government entity, which not only has the resources to easily pull off the above attacks, but also may simply force you to give up your keys/passphrases using various techniques of coercion. In most non-democratic countries around the world, as well as in the USA and UK, it may be legal for law enforcement agencies to do so if they have suspicions that you might be hiding something of interest.
- Rubber-hose cryptanalysis. Also see XKCD #538
Data-at-rest encryption also will not protect you against someone simply wiping your disk. Regular backups are recommended to keep your data safe.
A very strong disk encryption setup (e.g. full system encryption with authenticity checking and no plaintext boot partition) is required to stand a chance against professional attackers who are able to tamper with your system before you use it. And even then it cannot prevent all types of tampering (e.g. hardware keyloggers). The best remedy might be hardware-based full-disk encryption and Trusted Computing.
System data encryption
While encrypting only the user data itself (often located within the home directory, or on removable media like a data DVD), is the simplest and least intrusive method, it has some significant drawbacks. In modern computer systems, there are many background processes that may cache and store information about user data or parts of the data itself in non-encrypted areas of the hard drive, like:
- swap partitions
- (potential remedies: disable swapping, or use encrypted swap as well)
(temporary files created by user applications)- (potential remedies: avoid such applications; mount
inside a ramdisk)
- (potential remedies: avoid such applications; mount
(log files and databases and such; for example, mlocate stores an index of all file names in/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db
- swap partitions
The solution is to encrypt both system and user data, preventing unauthorized physical access to private data that may be cached by the system. This however comes with the disadvantage that unlocking of the encrypted parts of the disk has to happen at boot time. Another benefit of system data encryption is that it complicates the installation of malware like keyloggers or rootkits for someone with physical access.
Choosing a setup
Which encryption setup is appropriate for you will depend on your goals (please read #Why use encryption? above) and system parameters.
Among other things, you will need to answer the following questions:
- What kind of "attacker" do you want to protect against?
- Casual computer user snooping around your disk when your system is turned off, stolen, etc.
- Professional cryptanalyst who can get repeated read/write access to your system before and after you use it
- Anyone in between
- What do you want to encrypt?
- Only user data
- User data and system data
- Only confidential data, i.e. a subset of your data
- How should swap,
, etc. be taken care of?
- Disable or mount as ramdisk
- Encrypted swap
- Swapfile as part of full disk encryption
- Encrypt swap partition separately
- How should encrypted parts of the disk be unlocked?
- Passphrase
- Same as login password
- Different to login password
- Keyfile (e.g. on a USB stick, that you keep in a safe place or carry around with yourself)
- Both
- When should encrypted parts of the disk be unlocked?
- Before boot
- During boot
- At login
- Manually on demand (after login)
- How should multiple users be accommodated?
- Not at all
- Using a shared passphrase (or keyfile) known to every user
- Independently issued and revocable passphrases (or keyfiles) for the same encrypted part of the disk
- Separate encrypted parts of the disk for different users
Then you can go on to make the required technical choices (see #Available methods and #How the encryption works below), regarding:
- stacked filesystem encryption vs. blockdevice encryption
- key management
- cipher and mode of operation
- metadata storage
- location of the "lower directory" (in case of stacked filesystem encryption)
Preparing the disk
Before setting up encryption on a (part of a) disk, consider securely wiping it first. This consists of overwriting the entire drive or partition with a stream of zero bytes or random bytes, and is done for one or both of the following reasons:
- Prevent recovery of previously stored data
Disk encryption does not change the fact that individual sectors are only overwritten on demand, when the file system creates or modifies the data those particular sectors hold (see #How the encryption works below). Sectors which the filesystem considers "not currently used" are not touched, and may still contain remnants of data from previous filesystems. The only way to make sure that all data which you previously stored on the drive can not be recovered, is to manually erase it. For this purpose it does not matter whether zero bytes or random bytes are used (although wiping with zero bytes will be much faster).
- Prevent disclosure of usage patterns on the encrypted drive
Ideally, the whole encrypted part of the disk should be indistinguishable from uniformly random data. This way, no unauthorized person can know which and how many sectors actually contain encrypted data - which may be a desirable goal in itself (as part of true confidentiality), and also serves as an additional barrier against attackers trying to break the encryption. In order to satisfy this goal, wiping the disk using high-quality random bytes is crucial.
The second goal only makes sense in combination with block device encryption, because in the case of stacked filesystem encryption the encrypted data can easily be located anyways (in the form of distinct encrypted files in the host filesystem). Also note that even if you only intend to encrypt a particular folder, you will have to erase the whole partition if you want to get rid of files that were previously stored in that folder in unencrypted form (due to disk fragmentation). If there are other folders on the same partition, you will have to back them up and move them back afterwards.
Once you have decided which kind of disk erasure you want to perform, refer to the Securely wipe disk article for technical instructions.
Available methods
All data-at-rest encryption methods operate in such a way that even though the disk actually holds encrypted data, the operating system and applications "see" it as the corresponding normal readable data as long as the cryptographic container (i.e. the logical part of the disk that holds the encrypted data) has been "unlocked" and mounted.
For this to happen, some "secret information" (usually in the form of a keyfile and/or passphrase) needs to be supplied by the user, from which the actual encryption key can be derived (and stored in the kernel keyring for the duration of the session).
If you are completely unfamiliar with this sort of operation, please also read the #How the encryption works section below.
The available data-at-rest encryption methods can be separated into two types by their layer of operation:
Stacked filesystem encryption
Stacked filesystem encryption solutions are implemented as a layer that stacks on top of an existing filesystem, causing all files written to an encryption-enabled folder to be encrypted on-the-fly before the underlying filesystem writes them to disk, and decrypted whenever the filesystem reads them from disk. This way, the files are stored in the host filesystem in encrypted form (meaning that their contents, and usually also their file/folder names, are replaced by random-looking data of roughly the same length), but other than that they still exist in that filesystem as they would without encryption, as normal files / symlinks / hardlinks / etc.
The way it is implemented, is that to unlock the folder storing the raw encrypted files in the host filesystem ("lower directory"), it is mounted (using a special stacked pseudo-filesystem) onto itself or optionally a different location ("upper directory"), where the same files then appear in readable form - until it is unmounted again, or the system is turned off.
Available solutions in this category include eCryptfs and EncFS, or one of the cloud-ready options bellow.
Cloud-storage optimized
If you are deploying stacked filesystem encryption to achieve zero-knowledge synchronization with third-party-controlled locations such as cloud-storage services, you may want to consider alternatives to eCryptfs and EncFS, since these are not optimized for transmission of files over the Internet. There are some solutions designed for this purpose instead:
- gocryptfs
- cryptomatorAUR or cryptomator-binAUR (multi-platform)
- cryfs
Note that some cloud-storage services offer zero-knowledge encryption directly through their own client applications.
Block device encryption
Block device encryption methods, on the other hand, operate below the filesystem layer and make sure that everything written to a certain block device (i.e. a whole disk, or a partition, or a file acting as a loop device) is encrypted. This means that while the block device is offline, its whole content looks like a large blob of random data, with no way of determining what kind of filesystem and data it contains. Accessing the data happens, again, by mounting the protected container (in this case the block device) to an arbitrary location in a special way.
The following "block device encryption" solutions are available in Arch Linux:
- loop-AES
- loop-AES is a descendant of cryptoloop and is a secure and fast solution to system encryption. However, loop-AES is considered less user-friendly than other options as it requires non-standard kernel support.
- dm-crypt
- dm-crypt is the standard device-mapper encryption functionality provided by the Linux kernel. It can be used directly by those who like to have full control over all aspects of partition and key management. The management of dm-crypt is done with the cryptsetup userspace utility. It can be used for the following types of block-device encryption: LUKS (default), plain, and has limited features for loopAES and Truecrypt devices.
- LUKS, used by default, is an additional convenience layer which stores all of the needed setup information for dm-crypt on the disk itself and abstracts partition and key management in an attempt to improve ease of use and cryptographic security.
- plain dm-crypt mode, being the original kernel functionality, does not employ the convenience layer. It is more difficult to apply the same cryptographic strength with it. When doing so, longer keys (passphrases or keyfiles) are the result. It has, however, other advantages for very specific cases. For example, a single block device can be segmented and encrypted accordingly.
- TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt
- A portable format, supporting encryption of whole disks/partitions or file containers, with compatibility across all major operating systems. TrueCrypt was discontinued by its developers in May 2014. The VeraCrypt fork was audited in 2016.
For practical implications of the chosen layer of operation, see the #Block device vs stacked filesystem encryption below, as well as the general write up for eCryptfs. See Category:Encryption for the available content of the methods compared below, as well as other tools not included in the table.
Block device vs stacked filesystem encryption
Block device encryption | Stacked filesystem encryption | |
Encrypts | block devices | files |
Container for encrypted data may be... | a disk or disk partition / a file as loop device | a directory in an existing file system |
Relation to filesystem | operates below filesystem layer: does not care whether the content of the encrypted block device is a filesystem, a partition table, a LVM setup, or anything else | adds an additional layer to an existing filesystem, to automatically encrypt/decrypt files whenever they are written/read |
Encrypts file metadata (number of files, directory structure, file sizes, permissions, modification times, etc.) | Yes (Using 'discard' may reveal file sizes) |
Partial (Filenames are encrypted, other metadata may be visible depending on features) |
Can be used to custom-encrypt whole hard drives (including partition tables) | Yes | No |
Can be used to encrypt swap space | Yes | No |
Can be used without pre-allocating a fixed amount of space for the encrypted data container | No (Using 'discard' may allow sparsely-allocated containers, at the cost of revealing file sizes) |
Yes |
Can be used to protect existing filesystems without block device access, e.g. NFS or Samba shares, cloud storage, etc. | No1 | Yes |
Allows offline file-based backups of encrypted files | No | Yes |
- well, a single file in those filesystems could be used as a container (virtual loop-back device!) but then one would not actually be using the filesystem (and the features it provides) anymore
Comparison table
The column "dm-crypt +/- LUKS" denotes features of dm-crypt for both LUKS ("+") and plain ("-") encryption modes. If a specific feature requires using LUKS, this is indicated by "(with LUKS)". Likewise "(without LUKS)" indicates usage of LUKS is counter-productive to achieve the feature and plain mode should be used.
Summary | Loop-AES | dm-crypt +/- LUKS | VeraCrypt | ZFS | eCryptfs | EncFS | gocryptfs | fscrypt |
Encryption type | block device | block device | block device | native filesystem or block device | stacked filesystem | stacked filesystem | stacked filesystem | native filesystem |
Note | longest-existing one; possibly the fastest; works on legacy systems | de-facto standard for block device encryption on Linux; very flexible | maintained fork of TrueCrypt, supporting TrueCrypt and VeraCrypt volumes | encryption feature relatively new (2019); encrypted block devices provided by ZVOL | slightly faster than EncFS; individual encrypted files portable between systems | easiest one to use; supports non-root administration | aspiring successor of EncFS | default for Chrome OS and Android encryption |
Availability in Arch Linux | requires manually compiled, custom kernel | kernel modules: already shipped with default kernel; tools: device-mapper, cryptsetup | veracrypt | ZFS#Installation | kernel module: already shipped with default kernel; tools: ecryptfs-utils | encfs | gocryptfs | kernel module: already shipped with default kernel; tool: fscrypt |
License | GPL | GPL | Apache License 2.0, parts subject to TrueCrypt License v3.0 | CDDL | GPL | GPL | MIT | GPL (kernel), Apache 2.0 (userspace tool) |
Encryption implemented in... | kernelspace | kernelspace | kernelspace | kernelspace | kernelspace | userspace (FUSE) | userspace (FUSE) | kernelspace |
Cryptographic metadata stored in... | ? | with LUKS: LUKS Header | begin/end of (decrypted) device (format spec) | DSL (dataset & snapshot layer; talk/slides) | header of each encrypted file | control file at the top level of each EncFS container | ? | .fscrypt directory at root of each filesystem
Wrapped encryption key stored in... | ? | with LUKS: LUKS header | begin/end of (decrypted) device (format spec) | DSL (dataset & snapshot layer; talk/slides) | key file that can be stored anywhere | key file that can be stored anywhere | ? | .fscrypt directory at root of each filesystem
Usability features | Loop-AES | dm-crypt +/- LUKS | VeraCrypt | ZFS | eCryptfs | EncFS | gocryptfs | fscrypt |
Non-root users can create/destroy containers for encrypted data | No | No | No | Yes | limited | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Provides a GUI | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No |
Support for automounting on login | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes with systemd | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Support for automatic unmounting in case of inactivity | ? | ? | ? | No | ? | Yes | Yes [3] |
No |
Security features | Loop-AES | dm-crypt +/- LUKS | VeraCrypt | ZFS | eCryptfs | EncFS | gocryptfs | fscrypt |
Supported ciphers | AES | AES, Anubis, CAST5/6, Twofish, Serpent, Camellia, Blowfish,… (every cipher the kernel Crypto API offers) | AES, Twofish, Serpent, Camellia, Kuznyechik | AES | AES, Blowfish, Twofish... | AES, Blowfish, Twofish, and any other ciphers available on the system | AES | AES, ChaCha12 |
Integrity | none | optional in LUKS2 | none | CCM, GCM | none | none (default mode) HMAC (paranoia mode) |
GCM | none |
Support for salting | ? | Yes (with LUKS) |
Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes |
Support for cascading multiple ciphers | ? | Not in one device, but blockdevices can be cascaded | Yes
AES-Twofish, AES-Twofish-Serpent, Serpent-AES, Serpent-Twofish-AES, Twofish-Serpent |
No | ? | No | No | No |
Support for key-slot diffusion | ? | Yes (with LUKS) |
? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No |
Protection against key scrubbing | Yes | Yes (without LUKS) |
? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No |
Support for multiple (independently revocable) keys for the same encrypted data | ? | Yes (with LUKS) |
? | No | ? | No | ? | Yes |
Performance features | Loop-AES | dm-crypt +/- LUKS | VeraCrypt | ZFS | eCryptfs | EncFS | gocryptfs | fscrypt |
Multithreading support | ? | Yes [4] |
Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes |
Hardware-accelerated encryption support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes [5] |
Yes | Yes |
Block device encryption specific | Loop-AES | dm-crypt +/- LUKS | VeraCrypt | ZFS | ||||
Support for (manually) resizing the encrypted block device in-place | ? | Yes | No | Yes | ||||
Stacked filesystem encryption specific | ZFS | eCryptfs | EncFS | gocryptfs | fscrypt | |||
Supported file systems | ZFS | ext3, ext4, xfs (with caveats), jfs, nfs... | ext3, ext4, xfs (with caveats), jfs, nfs, cifs... | any | ext4, F2FS, UBIFS | |||
Ability to encrypt filenames | Yes zfs(8) |
Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
Ability to not encrypt filenames | No | Yes | Yes | Yes [7] |
No | |||
Optimized handling of sparse files | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
Compatibility & prevalence | Loop-AES | dm-crypt +/- LUKS | VeraCrypt | ZFS | eCryptfs | EncFS | gocryptfs | fscrypt |
Supported Linux kernel versions | 2.0 or newer | CBC-mode since 2.6.4, ESSIV 2.6.10, LRW 2.6.20, XTS 2.6.24 | ? | 2.6.32 or newer (as of 0.8.3) | ? | 2.4 or newer | ? | 4.1 or newer |
Encrypted data can also be accessed from Windows | ? | ? | Yes | Yes OpenZFS on Windows (repo) |
? | No (requires admin rights) | Yes (cppcryptfs port) | No |
Encrypted data can also be accessed from Mac OS X | ? | ? | Yes | Yes OpenZFS on OS X (repo) |
? | Yes [8] |
Yes (beta quality) | No |
Encrypted data can also be accessed from FreeBSD | ? | ? | Yes | Yes ZFS on FreeBSD (native; repo) |
? | Yes [9] |
? | No |
Used by | ? | Debian/Ubuntu installer (system encryption) Fedora installer |
? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Android, Chrome OS |
In practice, it could turn out something like:
- Example 1
- Simple user data encryption (internal hard drive) using a virtual folder called
in the user's home directory encrypted with EncFS- encrypted versions of the files stored on-disk in
- unlocked on demand with dedicated passphrase
- encrypted versions of the files stored on-disk in
- Example 2
- Partial system encryption with each user's home directory encrypted with ECryptfs
- unlocked on respective user login, using login passphrase
partitions encrypted with Dm-crypt with LUKS, using an automatically generated per-session throwaway key- indexing/caching of contents of
by slocate (and similar applications) disabled.
- Example 3
- System encryption - whole hard drive except
partition (however,/boot
can be encrypted with GRUB) encrypted with Dm-crypt with LUKS- unlocked during boot, using passphrases or USB stick with keyfiles
- Maybe different passphrases/keys per user - independently revocable
- Maybe encryption spanning multiple drives or partition layout flexibility with LUKS on LVM
- Example 4
- Hidden/plain system encryption - whole hard drive encrypted with plain dm-crypt
- USB-boot, using dedicated passphrase plus USB stick with keyfile
- data integrity checked before mounting
partition located on aforementioned USB stick
- Example 5
- File container encryption - a pre-allocated file serves as encrypted container for user data
- A file such as
is encrypted with Dm-crypt/Encrypting a non-root file system#File container - Occasional backup by copying the whole container to a remote host
- A file such as
Many other combinations are of course possible. You should carefully plan what kind of setup will be appropriate for your system.
How the encryption works
This section is intended as a high-level introduction to the concepts and processes which are at the heart of usual disk encryption setups.
It does not go into technical or mathematical details (consult the appropriate literature for that), but should provide a system administrator with a rough understanding of how different setup choices (especially regarding key management) can affect usability and security.
Basic principle
For the purposes of disk encryption, each blockdevice (or individual file in the case of stacked filesystem encryption) is divided into sectors of equal length, for example 512 bytes (4,096 bits). The encryption/decryption then happens on a per-sector basis, so the n'th sector of the blockdevice/file on disk will store the encrypted version of the n'th sector of the original data.
Whenever the operating system or an application requests a certain fragment of data from the blockdevice/file, the whole sector (or sectors) that contains the data will be read from disk, decrypted on-the-fly, and temporarily stored in memory:
╔═══════╗ sector 1 ║"???.."║ ╠═══════╣ ╭┈┈┈┈┈╮ sector 2 ║"???.."║ ┊ key ┊ ╠═══════╣ ╰┈┈┬┈┈╯ : : │ ╠═══════╣ ▼ ┣┉┉┉┉┉┉┉┫ sector n ║"???.."║━━━━━━(decryption)━━━━━━━▶┋"abc.."┋ sector n ╠═══════╣ ┣┉┉┉┉┉┉┉┫ : : ╚═══════╝ encrypted unencrypted blockdevice or data in RAM file on disk
Similarly, on each write operation, all sectors that are affected must be re-encrypted completely (while the rest of the sectors remain untouched).
In order to be able to de/encrypt data, the disk encryption system needs to know the unique secret "key" associated with it. Whenever the encrypted block device or folder in question is to be mounted, its corresponding key (called henceforth its "master key") must be supplied.
The entropy of the key is of utmost importance for the security of the encryption. A randomly generated byte string of a certain length, for example 32 bytes (256 bits), has desired properties but is not feasible to remember and apply manually during the mount.
For that reason two techniques are used as aides. The first is the application of cryptography to increase the entropic property of the master key, usually involving a separate human-friendly passphrase. For the different types of encryption the #Comparison table lists respective features. The second method is to create a keyfile with high entropy and store it on a medium separate from the data drive to be encrypted.
See also Wikipedia:Authenticated encryption.
Keys, keyfiles and passphrases
The following are examples how to store and cryptographically secure a master key with a keyfile:
- Stored in a plaintext keyfile
Simply storing the master key in a file (in readable form) is the simplest option. The file - called a "keyfile" - can be placed on a USB stick that you keep in a secure location and only connect to the computer when you want to mount the encrypted parts of the disk (e.g. during boot or login).
- Stored in passphrase-protected form in a keyfile or on the disk itself
The master key (and thus the encrypted data) can be protected with a secret passphrase, which you will have to remember and enter each time you want to mount the encrypted block device or folder. See #Cryptographic metadata below for details.
- Randomly generated on-the-fly for each session
In some cases, e.g. when encrypting swap space or a /tmp
partition, it is not necessary to keep a persistent master key at all. A new throwaway key can be randomly generated for each session, without requiring any user interaction. This means that once unmounted, all files written to the partition in question can never be decrypted again by anyone - which in those particular use-cases is perfectly fine.
Cryptographic metadata
Frequently the encryption techniques use cryptographic functions to enhance the security of the master key itself. On mount of the encrypted device the passphrase or keyfile is passed through these and only the result can unlock the master key to decrypt the data.
A common setup is to apply so-called "key stretching" to the passphrase (via a "key derivation function"), and use the resulting enhanced passphrase as the mount key for decrypting the actual master key (which has been previously stored in encrypted form):
╭┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈╮ ╭┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈╮ ┊ mount passphrase ┊━━━━⎛key derivation⎞━━━━▶┊ mount key ┊ ╰┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈╯ ,──⎝ function ⎠ ╰┈┈┈┈┈┬┈┈┈┈┈╯ ╭──────╮ ╱ │ │ salt │───────────´ │ ╰──────╯ │ ╭──────────────────────╮ ▼ ╭┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈╮ │ encrypted master key │━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━(decryption)━━━━▶┊ master key ┊ ╰──────────────────────╯ ╰┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈╯
The key derivation function (e.g. PBKDF2 or scrypt) is deliberately slow (it applies many iterations of a hash function, e.g. 1000 iterations of HMAC-SHA-512), so that brute-force attacks to find the passphrase are rendered infeasible. For the normal use-case of an authorized user, it will only need to be calculated once per session, so the small slowdown is not a problem. It also takes an additional blob of data, the so-called "salt", as an argument - this is randomly generated once during set-up of the disk encryption and stored unprotected as part of the cryptographic metadata. Because it will be a different value for each setup, this makes it infeasible for attackers to speed up brute-force attacks using precomputed tables for the key derivation function.
The encrypted master key can be stored on disk together with the encrypted data. This way, the confidentiality of the encrypted data depends completely on the secret passphrase.
Additional security can be attained by instead storing the encrypted master key in a keyfile on e.g. a USB stick. This provides two-factor authentication: Accessing the encrypted data now requires something only you know (the passphrase), and additionally something only you have (the keyfile).
Another way of achieving two-factor authentication is to augment the above key retrieval scheme to mathematically "combine" the passphrase with byte data read from one or more external files (located on a USB stick or similar), before passing it to the key derivation function.The files in question can be anything, e.g. normal JPEG images, which can be beneficial for #Plausible deniability. They are still called "keyfiles" in this context, though.
After it has been derived, the master key is securely stored in memory (e.g. in a kernel keyring), for as long as the encrypted block device or folder is mounted.
It is usually not used for de/encrypting the disk data directly, though. For example, in the case of stacked filesystem encryption, each file can be automatically assigned its own encryption key. Whenever the file is to be read/modified, this file key first needs to be decrypted using the main key, before it can itself be used to de/encrypt the file contents:
╭┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈╮ ┊ master key ┊ file on disk: ╰┈┈┈┈┈┬┈┈┈┈┈┈╯ ┌ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ┐ │ ╎╭───────────────────╮╎ ▼ ╭┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈╮ ╎│ encrypted file key│━━━(decryption)━━━━▶┊ file key ┊ ╎╰───────────────────╯╎ ╰┈┈┈┈┬┈┈┈┈┈╯ ╎┌───────────────────┐╎ ▼ ┌┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┐ ╎│ encrypted file │◀━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━(de/encryption)━━━━━▶┊ readable file ┊ ╎│ contents │╎ ┊ contents ┊ ╎└───────────────────┘╎ └┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┘ └ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ┘
In a similar manner, a separate key (e.g. one per folder) may be used for the encryption of file names in the case of stacked filesystem encryption.
In the case of block device encryption one master key is used per device and, hence, all data. Some methods offer features to assign multiple passphrases/keyfiles for the same device and others not. Some use above mentioned functions to secure the master key and others give the control over the key security fully to the user. Two examples are explained by the cryptographic parameters used by dm-crypt in plain or LUKS modes.
When comparing the parameters used by both modes one notes that dm-crypt plain mode has parameters relating to how to locate the keyfile (e.g. --keyfile-size
, --keyfile-offset
). The dm-crypt LUKS mode does not need these, because each blockdevice contains a header with the cryptographic metadata at the beginning. The header includes the used cipher, the encrypted master-key itself and parameters required for its derivation for decryption. The latter parameters in turn result from options used during initial encryption of the master-key (e.g. --iter-time
, --use-random
For the dis-/advantages of the different techniques, please refer back to #Comparison table or browse the specific pages.
See also:
- Security#Passwords
- Wikipedia:Passphrase
- Wikipedia:Key (cryptography)
- Wikipedia:Key management
- Wikipedia:Key derivation function
Ciphers and modes of operation
The actual algorithm used for translating between pieces of unencrypted and encrypted data (so-called "plaintext" and "ciphertext") which correspond to each other with respect to a given encryption key, is called a "cipher".
Disk encryption employs "block ciphers", which operate on fixed-length blocks of data, e.g. 16 bytes (128 bits). At the time of this writing, the predominantly used ones are:
block size | key size | comment | |
AES | 128 bits | 128, 192 or 256 bits | approved by the NSA for protecting "SECRET" and "TOP SECRET" classified US-government information (when used with a key size of 192 or 256 bits) |
Blowfish | 64 bits | 32–448 bits | one of the first patent-free secure ciphers that became publicly available, hence very well established on Linux |
Twofish | 128 bits | 128, 192 or 256 bits | developed as successor of Blowfish, but has not attained as much widespread usage |
Serpent | 128 bits | 128, 192 or 256 bits | Considered the most secure of the five AES-competition finalists[10][11][12]. |
Encrypting/decrypting a sector (see above) is achieved by dividing it into small blocks matching the cipher's block-size, and following a certain rule-set (a so-called "mode of operation") for how to consecutively apply the cipher to the individual blocks.
Simply applying it to each block separately without modification (dubbed the "electronic codebook (ECB)" mode) would not be secure, because if the same 16 bytes of plaintext always produce the same 16 bytes of ciphertext, an attacker could easily recognize patterns in the ciphertext that is stored on disk.
The most basic (and common) mode of operation used in practice is "cipher-block chaining (CBC)". When encrypting a sector with this mode, each block of plaintext data is combined in a mathematical way with the ciphertext of the previous block, before encrypting it using the cipher. For the first block, since it has no previous ciphertext to use, a special pre-generated data block stored with the sector's cryptographic metadata and called an "initialization vector (IV)" is used:
╭──────────────╮ │initialization│ │vector │ ╰────────┬─────╯ ╭ ╠══════════╣ ╭─key │ ┣┉┉┉┉┉┉┉┉┉┉┫ │ ║ ║ ▼ ▼ ┋ ┋ . START ┴ ║"????????"║◀━━━(cipher)━━━━━(+)━━━━━┋"Hello, W"┋ block ╱╰────┐ sector n ║ ║ ┋ ┋ 1 ╲╭────┘ of file or ║ ║──────────────────╮ ┋ ┋ ' blockdevice ╟──────────╢ ╭─key │ ┠┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┨ ┬ ║ ║ ▼ ▼ ┋ ┋ │ ║"????????"║◀━━━(cipher)━━━━━(+)━━━━━┋"orld !!!"┋ block │ ║ ║ ┋ ┋ 2 │ ║ ║──────────────────╮ ┋ ┋ │ ╟──────────╢ │ ┠┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┨ │ ║ ║ ▼ ┋ ┋ : : ... : ... ... : ... : ... ciphertext plaintext on disk in RAM
When decrypting, the procedure is reversed analogously.
One thing worth noting is the generation of the unique initialization vector for each sector. The simplest choice is to calculate it in a predictable fashion from a readily available value such as the sector number. However, this might allow an attacker with repeated access to the system to perform a so-called watermarking attack. To prevent that, a method called "Encrypted salt-sector initialization vector (ESSIV)" can be used to generate the initialization vectors in a way that makes them look completely random to a potential attacker.
There are also a number of other, more complicated modes of operation available for disk encryption, which already provide built-in security against such attacks (and hence do not require ESSIV). Some can also additionally guarantee authenticity of the encrypted data (i.e. confirm that it has not been modified/corrupted by someone who does not have access to the key).
See also:
Plausible deniability
See Wikipedia:Plausible deniability and Wikipedia:Deniable Encryption.
Backup for disk encryption scenarios
Make a backup of the user data to protect against data loss. In general the backup of your encrypted data should be encrypted as well.
Block device encryption
There are multiple options; you can back up the disk block device where the encryption container resides as an image, e.g. /dev/sdx
, or you can back up the filesystem inside of the encrypted container, e.g. /dev/mapper/dm_name
, or you can back up the files, e.g. with rsync. The following sections list the advantages and disadvantages of each option.
Backup of disk block device
A backup of the disk block device is:
- encrypted as is with the same level of security as the working copy
- contains your LUKS header
- always as large as the disk block device
- does not easily allow advanced backup strategies such as incremental backup, compression, or deduplication
- easily restored to a new disk as this also restores the encryption container
Backup of the filesystem or files
A backup of the filesystem or files is:
- not encrypted as is
- should be encrypted before transport over the network, or when saving to disk, requiring additional effort
- not necessarily encrypted with the same level of security as the working copy
- does not contain your LUKS header
- only as large as the used space on the filesystem, see e.g. partclone
- allows advanced backup strategies such as incremental backup, compression, or deduplication
- requires manual restoration of the encryption container to a new disk, for example by restoring the LUKS header backup
LUKS header backup
If using LUKS it is possible to make a backup of the LUKS headers: it can make sense to periodically check and synchronize those backups, especially if passphrases have been revoked.
If however you have a backup of the data, and want to restore it, you can recreate the LUKS encrypted partition from scratch with cryptsetup and then restore the data, therefore backing up the LUKS header is less important than backing up the data.


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