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Everything you do disappears automatically when you shut down Tails.
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But you can save some of your files and configuration in an encrypted Persistent Storage on your Tails USB stick, for example:
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- Your documents - Your Wi-Fi passwords - Your brower bookmarks - ...
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Everything in the Persistent Storage is encrypted automatically.
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<p>The Persistent Storage is not hidden. An attacker in possession of your USB
stick can know that there is a Persistent Storage. Take into consideration that
you could be forced or tricked to give out its passphrase.</p>
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The encryption of the Persistent Storage uses LUKS and DMCrypt.
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[LUKS](https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/) and [DMCrypt](https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/-/wikis/DMCrypt) are the standard system for disk encryption in Linux. Tails uses their default encryption parameters, which are considered highly secure. This is the same technique as we recommend for [[creating and using encrypted volumes|doc/encryption_and_privacy/encrypted_volumes]] in general.
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<p>The weakest point of such encryption is often the passphrase chosen by
the user.</p>
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