I know "encrypt" isn't the right description here. It's more like trying to "obfuscate" or "scramble" a password in a plaintext shell script. Say you have a UNIX shell script that does FTP to Windows ...

The actual flaw lies in the scripts that set up Linux Unified Key Setup or encryption of the system partition. Hence this is only exploitable if one has encrypted the system partition while installing ...

Researchers have discovered a vulnerability in Cryptsetup, which is used to encrypt disks in Linux systems, that can lead to an attacker gaining a root shell. The actual flaw lies in the scripts that ...