Harddisk Encryption

Andreas Jellinghaus aj at ciphirelabs.com
Sun Nov 26 16:23:33 GMT 2006


Ivan Krstić wrote:
> Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
>> a paper won't fix the problems in the dm-crypt code. [...]
>> how does that fix dm-crypt in linux?
> 
> It doesn't. I'm merely pointing out that low-latency full-disk
> encryption is hardly an unsolved problem; your post did not make it
> clear you were specifically referring to dm-crypt.

it isn't. all the loop device based alternatives have the same
problem. sure, the post is linux specific, but what do you expect
on a ubuntu mailing list with the discussion about installing
ubuntu by default on an ecrypted filesystem? :)

Andreas



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