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From: Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] Hybrid drives
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 09:58:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100717075820.GA3626@maude.comedia.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100717071313.GA7243@fancy-poultry.org>

On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 09:13:13AM +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote:
>In other words: such hybrid drives can not safely be encrypted with
>LUKS/dmcrypt (or any other WDE software), because the controller 
>randomly swaps out 4 GB data to the SSD area, and even after shutting 
>down the machine, parts of/the whole LUKS header/key could possibly 
>be left on the SSD part?

I fail to see your point. What is the difference from having data on the
platters or on the internal ssd?

L.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-07-17  7:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-17  7:13 [dm-crypt] Hybrid drives Heinz Diehl
2010-07-17  7:17 ` Heinz Diehl
2010-07-17  7:58 ` Luca Berra [this message]
2010-07-17  9:46   ` Heinz Diehl
2010-07-17 11:05     ` Mikko Rauhala
2010-07-17 11:45       ` Heinz Diehl
2010-07-17 13:27         ` Sven Eschenberg
2010-07-17 11:10     ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2010-07-17 10:57 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2010-07-18 17:01 ` Arno Wagner

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