Re: LUKS2 support for null/plaintext target
Arno Wagner <[email protected]>
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Good point. See also FAQ Item 5.19. While a false sense of security is great for marketing, I agree that we should avoid it. Regards, Arno On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 18:51:00 CET, Jordan Glover wrote: > I think encrypting previously unencrypted data on the same disk > doesn't guarantee that old data won't be recoverable especially > on ssd/nvme which are ubiquitous today. Officially supporting > such case on LUKS will give users false sense of security of > their data. > > Jordan > _______________________________________________ > dm-crypt mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., Email: [email protected] GnuPG: ID: CB5D9718 FP: 12D6 C03B 1B30 33BB 13CF B774 E35C 5FA1 CB5D 9718 ---- A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. -- Plato If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list [email protected] https://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt