A standard for encrypting Linux disks. Proactive investigation is best switched off for machines whose disks use LUKS encryption.
Also called Linux Unified Key Setup.
In the Ultra Transcenders books
Each book explains LUKS in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- Standard deployment type
A Foundry deployment type billed per token that keeps processing of prompts and responses inside the Azure geography of the resource, meeting data residency needs at lower volumes.
- LAMP
Short for Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (Perl and Python also fill the P): a widely used open-source stack for web applications whose database is frequently Azure Database for MySQL.
- Proactive investigation
A Web UI switch, set per machine, that decides whether that machine is covered by proactive malware scans. Machines with disks encrypted by BitLocker, LUKS or VeraCrypt should be left out, as should Linux machines if no Linux mount server exists.
- Encryption
Scrambling data so it cannot be read without the correct secret key, which is then used to turn it back again. Hashing, by contrast, cannot be reversed.
Related terms
- TPM
A server chip that looks after cryptographic keys. VMs get version 2.0 through vTPM, whereas LUKS on AHV depends on the real hardware.