- AES
Advanced Encryption Standard, a strong, well-regarded
encryption algorithm chosen by the United
States National Institute of
Standards and Technology
- asset
the data being protected by encryption—either
a disk, partition, or a file
- encryption
a mathematical means of scrambling data so that it's
unintelligible unless decrypted using a specific
key
- key
the small piece of data necessary to make encrypted data
intelligible
- keychain
the physical medium (such as a USB flash drive)
used to hold the encryption key
(and possibly the beginning of the boot process)
- loopback device
a Linux block device which appears to store data (by using
another device)
- loop-AES
software written by Jari Ruusu that implements the
AES algorithm using a loopback
device
- plausible deniability
a means to avoid being coerced into decrypting one's own
data for an attacker
- USB flash drive
a small electronic device containing a memory chip and a USB
interface
