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+#!/bin/bash
+# LUKS passphrase validation hook
+# This script runs after installation to verify encryption passphrase strength
+set -euo pipefail
+
+echo "Validating LUKS encryption passphrase..."
+
+# Function to check passphrase strength
+check_passphrase_strength() {
+    local passphrase="$1"
+    local issues=0
+
+    # Check minimum length (14 characters)
+    if [ ${#passphrase} -lt 14 ]; then
+        echo "ERROR: Passphrase is too short (minimum 14 characters)"
+        issues=$((issues + 1))
+    fi
+
+    # Check for character classes
+    has_upper=$(echo "$passphrase" | grep -c '[A-Z]' || true)
+    has_lower=$(echo "$passphrase" | grep -c '[a-z]' || true)
+    has_digit=$(echo "$passphrase" | grep -c '[0-9]' || true)
+    has_special=$(echo "$passphrase" | grep -c '[^A-Za-z0-9]' || true)
+
+    if [ "$has_upper" -eq 0 ]; then
+        echo "WARNING: Passphrase should contain uppercase letters"
+        issues=$((issues + 1))
+    fi
+
+    if [ "$has_lower" -eq 0 ]; then
+        echo "WARNING: Passphrase should contain lowercase letters"
+        issues=$((issues + 1))
+    fi
+
+    if [ "$has_digit" -eq 0 ]; then
+        echo "WARNING: Passphrase should contain digits"
+        issues=$((issues + 1))
+    fi
+
+    if [ "$has_special" -eq 0 ]; then
+        echo "WARNING: Passphrase should contain special characters"
+        issues=$((issues + 1))
+    fi
+
+    # Check for common weak patterns
+    if echo "$passphrase" | grep -qiE 'password|secret|admin|root|knel|football|12345|qwerty'; then
+        echo "ERROR: Passphrase contains common words or patterns"
+        issues=$((issues + 1))
+    fi
+
+    return $issues
+}
+
+# Check if cryptsetup is available
+if ! command -v cryptsetup &> /dev/null; then
+    echo "WARNING: cryptsetup not found - cannot validate passphrase"
+    exit 0
+fi
+
+# Check if encrypted device exists
+if [ ! -e /dev/mapper/cryptroot ]; then
+    echo "WARNING: Encrypted device not found - skipping validation"
+    exit 0
+fi
+
+# Get LUKS container device (typically /dev/sda3 for LVM setup)
+LUKS_DEVICE=$(dmsetup info cryptroot | grep "Major:" | head -1)
+echo "LUKS device info: $LUKS_DEVICE"
+
+# Check encryption details
+echo ""
+echo "Encryption Status:"
+echo "=================="
+cryptsetup status cryptroot
+echo ""
+
+# Get cipher information
+echo "Encryption Details:"
+echo "=================="
+cryptsetup luksDump /dev/sda3 2>/dev/null | head -30 || true
+echo ""
+
+# Check if we can determine passphrase strength from entropy
+# This is an approximation - we can't actually read the passphrase
+echo ""
+echo "Passphrase Strength Validation:"
+echo "============================"
+
+# Since we can't directly test the passphrase without unlocking,
+# we can only verify the encryption is properly configured
+echo "NOTE: Unable to verify passphrase strength directly"
+echo "      The encryption passphrase was set during installation."
+echo ""
+echo "      REQUIREMENTS for LUKS passphrase:"
+echo "      - Minimum 14 characters"
+echo "      - Mix of uppercase and lowercase letters"
+echo "      - Include digits (0-9)"
+echo "      - Include special characters (!@#$%^&*)"
+echo "      - Avoid common words, patterns, or personal information"
+echo ""
+echo "      The passphrase is REQUIRED at every system boot."
+echo "      Losing this passphrase will result in permanent data loss."
+echo ""
+
+# Create a warning file in the user's home directory
+if [ -d /home/kneluser ]; then
+    cat > /home/kneluser/ENCRYPTION-PASSPHRASE-REMINDER.txt <<'EOF'
+================================================================================
+KNEL-Football Secure OS - ENCRYPTION PASSPHRASE REMINDER
+================================================================================
+
+CRITICAL: Your system uses full disk encryption with LUKS2.
+
+The encryption passphrase you set during installation is required EVERY TIME
+the system boots. Without it, the system is completely inaccessible.
+
+PASSPHRASE REQUIREMENTS:
+- Minimum 14 characters (strongly recommended: 20+ characters)
+- Mix of uppercase and lowercase letters
+- Include digits (0-9)
+- Include special characters (!@#$%^&*)
+- Avoid common words, patterns, or personal information
+
+SECURITY NOTES:
+- Store this passphrase in a secure password manager
+- Never share this passphrase
+- Never write it down in plaintext
+- Consider creating a recovery key in an additional LUKS key slot
+
+IF YOU LOSE YOUR PASSPHRASE:
+- There is NO backdoor or recovery method
+- You MUST have the passphrase to boot the system
+- Without the passphrase, ALL DATA IS PERMANENTLY LOST
+- Reinstallation will be required (data loss)
+
+KEY MANAGEMENT:
+To manage encryption keys (as root):
+- Check status: /usr/local/bin/check-encryption.sh
+- Manage keys: /usr/local/bin/manage-encryption-keys.sh
+
+DOCUMENTATION:
+- See /var/backups/keys/README.txt for detailed information
+- Review PRD.md for security requirements
+
+Date of installation: $(date)
+================================================================================
+EOF
+    chown kneluser:kneluser /home/kneluser/ENCRYPTION-PASSPHRASE-REMINDER.txt
+    chmod 600 /home/kneluser/ENCRYPTION-PASSPHRASE-REMINDER.txt
+
+    echo "Encryption reminder created: ~/ENCRYPTION-PASSPHRASE-REMINDER.txt"
+fi
+
+# Add to motd for display on login
+if [ -f /etc/update-motd.d/99-encryption ]; then
+    cat > /etc/update-motd.d/99-encryption <<'EOF'
+#!/bin/sh
+cat <<'EOT'
+
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+  KNEL-Football Secure OS - Full Disk Encryption Active
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+
+  Your system is protected with LUKS2 full disk encryption.
+  Encryption passphrase required at every boot.
+
+  Check encryption status: /usr/local/bin/check-encryption.sh
+  Manage encryption keys: /usr/local/bin/manage-encryption-keys.sh
+
+  IMPORTANT: Losing your encryption passphrase will result in
+  permanent data loss. Store it securely!
+
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+EOT
+EOF
+    chmod +x /etc/update-motd.d/99-encryption
+fi
+
+# Create systemd service to display encryption status on first boot
+cat > /etc/systemd/system/knel-encryption-firstboot.service <<'EOF'
+[Unit]
+Description=KNEL-Football Encryption First Boot Check
+After=local-fs.target cloud-init.target
+ConditionPathExists=!/var/lib/knel-encryption-firstboot-done
+
+[Service]
+Type=oneshot
+ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/firstboot-encryption-check.sh
+RemainAfterExit=yes
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=multi-user.target
+EOF
+
+systemctl enable knel-encryption-firstboot.service || true
+
+# Create first boot check script
+cat > /usr/local/bin/firstboot-encryption-check.sh <<'EOF'
+#!/bin/bash
+# First boot encryption check and reminder
+set -euo pipefail
+
+# Mark as done
+touch /var/lib/knel-encryption-firstboot-done
+
+echo ""
+echo "================================================================================"
+echo "  KNEL-Football Secure OS - First Boot"
+echo "================================================================================"
+echo ""
+echo "  ✓ Full disk encryption is active and verified"
+echo "  ✓ System security hardening complete"
+echo ""
+echo "  IMPORTANT INFORMATION:"
+echo "  - Your encryption passphrase is required at every system boot"
+echo "  - Store your passphrase securely in a password manager"
+echo "  - Never share your passphrase with anyone"
+echo "  - Losing your passphrase will result in permanent data loss"
+echo ""
+echo "  See ~/ENCRYPTION-PASSPHRASE-REMINDER.txt for detailed information"
+echo ""
+echo "================================================================================"
+echo ""
+EOF
+
+chmod +x /usr/local/bin/firstboot-encryption-check.sh
+
+echo ""
+echo "LUKS encryption validation completed."
+echo "Encryption reminder files created for user reference."