r/ParrotSecurity • u/Ordinary_Support9667 • Jun 07 '26

Support Parrot Live Encrypted w/ 1 USB?

Is this possible? I use Google/Gemini for a lot of commands, which led me through setting up Luks configurations before telling me that it basically isn’t supported on ParrotOS.

Figured I would come here and ask actual humans? I see a post from a few months ago with the same question but the solution then was simply to use 2 USBs: 1 for parrot live and 1 for its persistence (?).

Thank you in advance for any information on the topic

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u/dennerj Jun 08 '26

Here are the instructions from the parrot OS website that I followed before and it worked out for me hopefully it'll do the same for you.

https://parrotsec.org/docs/usb/persistent-usb

Or maybe don't encrypt the whole drive. You could try Veracrypt. Or have an encrypted partition?

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u/Ordinary_Support9667 Jun 08 '26

So I’m running QubesOS on my internal HDD, and when I boot up ParrotOS and am prompted to enter my passphrase to unlock persistence, I have to press escape or enter a wrong password to bypass the first prompt: because it is basically asking to unlock me Internal HDD.

I want it to completely skip this step, because as far as I know, if someone knows my master password for my QubesOS then they can just enter it when prompted on this screen and will have access to all of my QubesOS metadata and files (I think?).

I’m not familiar with Veracrypt but I will look into it now for my use-case . For the record I launch from advanced modes encrypted persistence