Implement Network Bound Disk Encryption(NBDE) on CentOS8

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JJ
James J
Nov 2, 2020

Full disk encryption in a Linux server environment is hard to do reliably. As a result, a lot of servers in Data Centers around the world are not encrypted. These days, that is quickly becoming an unacceptable practice. Red Hat recently took a stab at this one, and gave us Network Bound Disk Encryption(NBDE). Lets see if we can get it working.

JJ

James J

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