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title: Manual Encryption Configuration
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permalink: /doc/encryption-config/
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---
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Manual Encryption Configuration
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===============================
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Qubes OS uses full disk encryption (FDE) by default. If you are an advanced
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user who wishes to customize your encryption parameters during installation,
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this page can help.
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The Qubes installer uses `cryptsetup` (LUKS/dm-crypt) under the hood. You can
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configure the encryption options while installing Qubes as follows:
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01. Boot into the installer. Wait for first GUI screen to appear where it asks
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about language/localization .
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02. Press `Ctrl+Alt+F2` on your keyboard to escape to a shell session. (If you
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are on a laptop, and your laptop keyboard does not work properly, you may have
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to plug in a USB keyboard.)
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03. Check and adjust the partitioning on the drive you plan to install to with
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`parted`. For example, you can leave the partition table as `msdos/MBR` type,
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then create a 500 MB ext4 boot partition, a 10 GB swap partition, and use the
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rest of the drive (minus overprovisioning space for SSDs) for the root
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partition.
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04. Run to set the LUKS options as you like and set the passphrase:
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# cryptsetup <options> luksFormat <partition>
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For example:
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# cryptsetup -v --hash sha512 --cipher aes-xts-plain64 --key-size 512 --use-random --iter-time 5000 --verify-passphrase luksFormat /dev/sda2
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05. (Optional) Make sure the new container works:
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# cryptsetup open /dev/sda2 test
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# mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/test
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# mount /dev/mapper/test /mnt/test
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# umount /dev/mapper/test
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# cryptsetup close test
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06. Everything should be set with the preparation, so press `Ctrl+Alt+F7` to go
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back to the GUI installer.
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07. Continue installing as usual. When you get to the disk
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partitioning/allocation part, pay attention.
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08. When you select the disk, it may complain about only having a few MB of
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space. Uncheck the "Encrypt and ask me about the passphrase later" box and
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press the "Custom" button.
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09. In this menu, you should see the unencrypted boot partition and the encrypted
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LUKS partitions you created earlier. You must unlock the LUKS partition here,
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i.e. enter passphrases.
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10. Set the mount points on these partitions once they are decrypted. (This part
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may be a bit glitchy, but you should be able to get it working after a
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reboot.) For example, set the mount point for the primary LUKS partition as
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`/`. Make sure the "Encrypted" box stays checked and that you check the
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"Format" box (required for the root partition). Similarly, set `/boot` as
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the mount point for the unencrypted boot partition and `swap` as the mount
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point for the swap partition.
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11. Now the install should complete without any other issues. When it's
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finished, you'll have LUKS-encrypted partitions with the options you chose
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above. You can verify this command in dom0:
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# cryptsetup luksDump <partition>
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For example:
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# cryptsetup luksDump /dev/sda2
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-----
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These instructions were adapted from those provided by Qubes user [Jake] on the
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`qubes-users` [mailing list].
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[Jake]: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/qubes-users/cykOGRa0Im0/vK7j8aQOXkYJ
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[mailing list]: /mailing-lists/
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