Tails 5.13 Enables LUKS2 by Default for Persistent Storage and Encrypted Volumes (UPDATED)
Tails 5.13 looks like a small release, but it introduces an important change to better protect your anonymity and keep your files secure at all times. Starting with this version, all newly generated Persistent Storage and LUKS encrypted volumes will be using version 2 of the Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) disk encryption specification by default.
As you can imagine, LUKS2 offers stronger cryptography by default when compared to the first-generation LUKS specification. Unfortunately, this release doesn’t enable LUKS2 on existing Persistent Storage and LUKS encrypted volumes, but the development team announced plans to provide users a migration plan from LUKS1 to LUKS2 in the next release, Tails 5.14, due out in June 2023.
UPDATE
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New Release: Tails 5.13
We will provide a migration plan from LUKS1 to LUKS2 for existing Persistent Storage in Tails 5.14 (early June).