Encryption

I have a homelab. It runs many services for me, each in their own little container with its own IP address. Considering none of these services are ever reachable from outside my network (apart from if you’re connected to my VPN), I never felt the need to introduce domain names or HTTPS/SSL. I had a simple web page that had a bunch of links to the IP addresses—complete with port numbers—that I used to navigate these services in my Firefox-based browser: Librewolf. ...

LUKS, Linux Unified Key Setup, is a way to encrypt partitions on Linux. It’s a good way to store sensitive data on a flash drive or on your main system. Usage is super simple. You issue a command to unlock it and it will prompt you for your passphrase. After entering the right one, you can mount the partition and use it as normal. When you’re done with it, you umount the partition and lock it with another command. Without the right passphrase the data on the partition is just noise. ...