Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) - The Good, the Bad, the Ugly

Nowadays, a lot of sensitive information is stored on laptops, USB memory and mobile devices. Most of them are not protected from unauthorized access and that can lead to leak of confidential information like business secrets, users habits or non-public data. The main focus of this paper is to present the Linux Unified Key Setup, the most common Full Disk Encryption (FDE) solution for Linux based systems. In particular a few attacks will be shortly presented.