How to have a root LUKS partition decrypted without a password

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Issue

  • How can we use keys at boot time to auto-decrypt a root filesystem residing on an encrypted LUKS volume (without requiring passphrase entry)?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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