Is the L5 onboard storage encrypted?

[aipei]

As per the title. Is the onboard storage encrypted?

[Skalman]

Not by default I think, at least not yet, but you can get it encrypted as described here:

Tutorial: Full disk encryption on Librem5

This post aims to be a simple and noob-friendly tutorial to -test- Luks encryption on the Librem5. This is how I found my way through it and there might be different methods. At the end of the instructions you will have an encrypted root filesystem, encrypted with a pasphrase of your choice, using the full size of the phone’s disk. The original image of Byzantium-luks from Purism is only 3.7GB, but we will expand it to the whole disk. This method doesn’t offer the opportunity to regenerate the …

[irvinewade]

and I would expect that you would have no problems putting an encrypted file system on the uSD card, if that would meet your needs.