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by nonninz 3810 days ago
Excuse my ignorance, but how does full-disk encryption work if you don't have console access to it?

How do you enter the password after, say, a hard reset/power outage?

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For Debian and Ubuntu servers: Mandos (http://www.recompile.se/mandos)

Introduction here: http://www.recompile.se/mandos/man/intro.8mandos

Disclosure: I am a co-author. (Yeah, yeah, we will switch our certificate from CACert to LetsEncrypt. Soon. Ish.)

SSH?