Encryption

OpenBSD laptop with Full Disk Encryption

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Running OpenBSD on the laptop makes is safe by default. But encrypting the storage of the OpenBSD laptop makes it even safer. This is how my ThinkPad X230i gets encrypted and won’t boot without the proper USB thumb drive plugged in.

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Upgrade encrypted OpenBSD from 6.2 to 6.3

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I took the time to switch from OpenBSD 6.2 to 6.3 on my Cloud instance with encrypted disk. As usual, it went smooth and troubleless. For the record, here are the directions.

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Upgrade encrypted OpenBSD to 6.2 in Vultr hosting

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Because OVH hosting is damm slow, I tested Vultr hosting (because they are *BSD friendly). I first tried OpenBSD 6.2-beta, then upgraded to 6.2. Of course, root is encrypted. Here’re my notes.

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FreeBSD encrypted ZFS root in Vultr hosting

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During some rclone thoughts and tries, I had to build a FreeBSD VM in the Cloud. Because I got a trial coupon from Vultr, I tried building a VM there. And because I come from OpenBSD, I looked a encrypting the FreeBSD root file-system. Here’s how I did it.

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