From: Heinz Diehl <htd@fancy-poultry.org>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] dm-crypt Digest, Vol 27, Issue 2
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 19:18:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110901171817.GA2230@fancy-poultry.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6dr65wvu3k4wfdi27eheaskw.1314891247270@email.android.com>
On 01.09.2011, Shardis wrote:
> Personally, I tend to find that the only sane technical reason not to encrypt anything considered
> sensitive these days is CPU cycle cost.
"Security is essentially a trade-off" (B. Schneier). If the data is worth the encryption, you'll have to live with cpu overhead.
If it's not: why do you want to have it encrypted, then?
> Why would you ever NOT want to encrypt in house?
Because the data isn't worth it?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-01 17:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-01 15:58 [dm-crypt] dm-crypt Digest, Vol 27, Issue 2 Shardis
2011-09-01 17:18 ` Heinz Diehl [this message]
2011-09-01 17:36 ` Arno Wagner
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2011-09-01 18:22 Shardis
2011-09-01 18:36 ` Arno Wagner
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2011-09-01 13:30 ` Yaron Sheffer
2011-09-01 17:24 ` Arno Wagner
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