"Edward Ned Harvey (blu)" <b...@nedharvey.com> writes: > > > You seem to think there's an obstacle which isn't really real - > > Encryption is very cheap computationally, so cheap indeed it can be > > done by the disks themselves. >
On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 1:14 PM, Derek Atkins <warl...@mit.edu> wrote: > I don't trust my disks to do the encryption, mostly because there's > really no way to verify that it's doing it correctly, and the key > management gets a lot harder. > The way I read it, the message wasn't that you should trust the disk to do the encryption; it's that encryption has very low overhead today, and the reference to disk-based encryption was merely to illustrate that point. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix Email: abre...@gmail.com / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0x920063C6 PGP-Key-Fingerprint A5AD 6BE1 FEFE 8E4F 5C23 C2D0 E885 E17C 9200 63C6 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss