Re: [dm-crypt] The future of disk encryption with LUKS2

[Arno Wagner <arno@wagner.name>]

On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 14:13:21 CET, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On ven., 2016-02-05 at 12:02 +0100, Arno Wagner wrote:
> > > Think external drives / removable storage?
> > 
> > An attacker with physical access that you do not notice has 
> > won. Storage encryption does not protect here. Think, for 
> > example, "evil maid" type attacks. Storage encryption
> > is only for theft of the device (which you notice) or 
> > attacker access which you notice in other ways.
> 
> This is exactly why integrity matters? The point is to have an usb drive /
> external disk *fully* encrypted.  The decryption is done by the host
> (which is trusted).  In that case, confidentiality and integrity are both
> important.

No. You are trying to solve the wrong problem. First, disk 
encryption with 1:1 mapping will never give you integrity 
protection and the other variants kill performance.

And second, who says anything abot the "evil maid" changing
things in the encrypted container?

Seriosuly, what you want you do not do with disk encryption, 
but with PGP/GnuPG on file-level.

Regards,
Arno 
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