Re: Cloud computing ( was Re: Linux Petition )
"Richard W.M. Jones" <[email protected]>
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On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 03:24:47AM +0100, JLMS wrote: > The question is: if all your data and communications are properly > secured (encrypted disks in Red Hat, Solaris work quite well for > example, and with SSDs and forever more powerful machines the > traditional technical penalties for encrypting are becoming less of an > issue), what exactly would be wrong with having your data in the so > called cloud? Unless you've worked out an efficient homomorphic encryption scheme, I have to tell you that encrypting the disks on your cloud machines makes not the slightest bit of difference to the security of your cloud data. Rich. -- Richard Jones Red Hat -- Gllug mailing list - [email protected] http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug