From: Arno Wagner <arno@wagner.name>
To: Lamy Geier <lamyergeier@gmail.com>
Cc: cryptsetup@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: Single User (single or multiple keyslots with similar or different passphrase)
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2022 14:26:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221121132630.GB22361@tansi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5b560ee4-2813-6aa5-484d-1754e118bb90@gmail.com>
One Keyslot should be enough, but you should hve a header backup.
The only redundancy multiple passphrases give you is basically
multiple passphrases.
Regards,
Arno
On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 09:42:37 CET, Lamy Geier wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I am a single user and owner of the data in my laptop. I was wondering if it
> is any better to have single or multiple keyslots with same or different
> passphrases. I am using LUKS2 on a partition for root, home and swap volumes
> (LVM). And LUKS1 for a boot partition. Please suggest which of the following
> is better choice and why:
>
> 1. Should I have single passphrase and single keyslot for LUKS1 and LUKS2?
> 2. Multiple Keyslots for LUKS1 and LUKS2 with same passphrase.
> 3. Multiple Keyslots for LUKS1 and LUKS2 with different passphrase.
>
>
> - My reasoning was that may be having redundant information, it helps in
> times of crisis for recovery.
>
> - Note: The data will be owned and used only by me.
>
> --
> Thanks and Regards
>
> Lamy
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-21 8:42 Single User (single or multiple keyslots with similar or different passphrase) Lamy Geier
2022-11-21 11:06 ` Frequency of backup of headers for LUKS1 and LUKS2 Lamy Geier
2022-11-21 13:24 ` Arno Wagner
2022-11-21 13:26 ` Arno Wagner [this message]
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