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ShortN0te@lemmy.ml 1 week agoLUKS may not make your server meaningfully more secure. Anyone who can snapshot your server while it’s running or modify your unencrypted kernel or initrd files before you next unlock the server will be able to access your files.
This is a little oversimplified. Hardware vendors have done a lot of work in the last 10-20 years to make it hard to impossible to obtain data this way. AMD-SEV for example.
There are other more realistic attacks like simply etrackt the ssh server signature and MITM the ssh connection and extract the LUKS password.