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Storage Analysis: LUKS Cipher

MediumStorage & LVM10-15 min
The brief

An encrypted LUKS2 volume was recovered and you must document its crypto for the incident report. A capture of cryptsetup luksDump is at /root/storage/luksdump.txt — its values differ per session.

Record the data segment's full cipher specification (e.g. aes-xts-plain64) to /root/answers/luks_cipher.txt. LUKS2 dumps also show a Cipher: under each keyslot — that one protects the key material, not your data, and it can differ.

What you'll do
  • Record the LUKS cipher spec to /root/answers/luks_cipher.txt

Hands-on lab: you work on a real Linux box in your browser, graded on the machine's actual state.