What you will need 📋
- A USB drive
- A computer with Linux 🐧🖥
- The ability to read instructions and to follow them 🧠
- Install cryptsetup
$ sudo pacman -S cryptsetup
- Backup any information on the USB stick because this process involves formatting the USB drive.
- Formatting USB.
$ sudo fdisk /dev/sdX
The X being your USB drive.
Press the following keys:
o
n
Press enter for the rest
w
- Encryption time!
$ sudo cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/sdX1
- Decrypt USB
$ sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdX1 USB
Note: The first password is your root user password, not the encryption password. I have sadly made this mistake in the past.
- Format the Encrypted Partition
$ sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/USB
Depending on the size of the USB, this may take some time. For me, it took 3 minutes.
Step 7: Mount the Encrypted Partition
$ sudo mkdir -p /mnt/USB
$ sudo mount /dev/mapper/USB /mnt/USB
Finished ✅
I hope your password is good, make sure to memorize it or save it in a password manager!