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I get it. Credential storage and recovery is a big issue. People vary in skill, ability to keep track of keys or remember how to use them, and they may not have a password manager, safe deposite box, or other locked storage to store them in.
Bittlocker is a pain. Simply booting a maintainance disk requied me to use the recovery codes to get back into windows.
Give her and your personal representatives the keys or access to the keys. Problem solved.
Same problem as you passwords and password manager.
Servers are harder and not preconfigued if you want unattended boot. The first key has to come from somewhere typically to unlock the root partition. The other keys can then be stored on that encrypted partition and are typically referenced by crypttab for auto unlock.
The first key can come from anywhere you want such as attached media like a flash drive, a over the network say via ssh, from a key server, or from the TPM. Or you could remotely connect to the console. There are bunch of how tos out there. It amounts to customizing the boot process and the initramfs. It is not simple. What makes sense depends on the threat model.
Disk encryption does not impact file sharing over the network.
Sure if you sharing by a USB portable drive you have to unlock and lock it every time you use it. That is separate thing though.
The bigger issues of encryption are one should have a good backup and recovery plan both for media and for the keys. One has to consider legacy planning too. How do your personal representatives access.
Your recovery problem was a backup issue not an encryption issue. Consider addressing the backup issue.
Android uses verified boot then encrypts the various profiles and the new private space seprately. This is how my GrapheneOS phone works.
Linux has a bunch of options. Ubuntu use to suggest per user encryption by ecryptfs but has since gone to partition based encryption via dm-crypt/LUKS. I still use either or both depending though ecryptfs seems depricated/discontinued and on the next upgrade I may discontinue.
Linux can support vaults too. Just locking certain folders. Encfs, and gocryptfs can do this for example. I use encfs though perhaps gocryptfs is a better choice these days. One can also use partition based solutions like dm-crypfs/LUKS or maybe even veracrypt too.
Can you just forward the email? Basically use it as a mail drop.
This is the primary reason for me as well. Drive disposal. Also since we only get electronic statements, want to encrypt those.
Actually gmail has one thing correct, Google had been promoting MTA-STS. I am planning on moving to namecheap cPanel email and see if I can enable MTA-STS my domain.
I am not sure any modified browser is that private since it is unique. Generally the whole point of a privacy browser is that you can use stock configuration.
I use hot mount SATA slots for backup and other media. Not that common on workstations. Sure, common on servers.
Yes, that is why I see little value in a TPM for this sort of thing. That is at least for motherboard attached TPMs.
Keep in mind that you have to decide where your going to get the primary unlock key from and how your going to secure it. Standard way is to supply the primary key for the root partition on boot via the console and then the other keys are stored in the root partition.
There are other ways to get the primary key. You can get it from a TPM, a network key server, from other media, etc. These are not standard and have to be set up. What is best depends on threat model.
Presumably combined with Tor or a VPN or multiple ISPs.
I wonder how it is deployed. If client side then uBlock Origin or NoScript might avoid.
Not sure there is. Dimensionality of the trackble elements is very high. All of them have to either be the same or fuzzed across large groups of users.
Eject is not just for CDs. You still have to eject any hot mount physical media. Sadly the eject command only works in some cases. I do not think it works for hot mount SATA dives for example.
Server no. But hosted domain email is probably what I will do in the next year. Probably at Fastmail or at Namecheap. I have the domain just waiting.
In a way, I already have a mail server on my VPS, just never installed IMAP. Not what I want for every day though.
I assume it has something to do with how secure boot, the TPM, and Bitlocker interact.