gavinhungry / skul

Create, format and mount loopback-based LUKS containers

skul

Create, format and mount loopback-based, encrypted LUKS containers.

Environment Variables

• SKUL_CIPHER: Defaults to aes-xts-plain64
• SKUL_KEYSIZE: Defaults to 512
• SKUL_HASH: Defaults to sha512
• SKUL_ITER: Defaults to 4000

Usage

$ skul
usage: skul.sh [create|open|close|info] FILENAME
  [--size|-s SIZE]
  [--keyfile|-k KEYFILE]
  [--header|-h HEADERFILE]

# Create a 128MB LUKS container named 'private'
$ skul create private --size 128

skul: Creating container 'private' ...
skul: Encrypting container 'private' ...
skul: Opening container 'private' ...
skul: Creating filesytem on 'skul-private' ...
skul: Mounting 'skul-private' ...
skul: Setting mountpoint permissions on '/media/skul-private' ...

After moving sensitive files into /media/skul-private:

$ skul close private

License

This software is released under the terms of the MIT license. See LICENSE.