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title: Full Disk Encryption on OpenBSD
description: How to configure full disk encryption for a new OpenBSD install
tags:
- OpenBSD
---

## Introduction

Activating full disk encryption is quite easy on OpenBSD, you just have to :
- boot the installer
- drop to a shell
- follow https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#softraidFDE

Yes this article is mostly a RTFM, I wrote it so that I do not have to google for the right faq entry.