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From: Arno Wagner <arno@wagner.name>
To: Jordan Glover <Golden_Miller83@protonmail.ch>
Cc: Chris Murphy <lists@colorremedies.com>,
	"dm-crypt@saout.de" <dm-crypt@saout.de>
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] LUKS2 support for null/plaintext target
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2019 20:12:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191215191203.GA960@tansi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Kuf0HqfNDFs36S39f45WW2TuxKIdYzTr0QkObdzLaUYeY2s58O5BPCwXLBK43xVi1E7pXvVZ3zD12KLVkAU7V3a03Gu6-eIo4PtVts8rDA4=@protonmail.ch>

Good point. See also FAQ Item 5.19.

While a false sense of security is great for marketing,
I agree that we should avoid it.

Regards,
Arno


On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 18:51:00 CET, Jordan Glover wrote:
> I think encrypting previously unencrypted data on the same disk
> doesn't guarantee that old data won't be recoverable especially
> on ssd/nvme which are ubiquitous today. Officially supporting
> such case on LUKS will give users false sense of security of
> their data.
> 
> Jordan
> _______________________________________________
> dm-crypt mailing list
> dm-crypt@saout.de
> https://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-12-15 19:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-06 23:10 [dm-crypt] LUKS2 support for null/plaintext target Chris Murphy
2019-12-07  9:39 ` Michael Kjörling
2019-12-08 16:59   ` Chris Murphy
2019-12-13 14:59 ` Milan Broz
2019-12-13 18:54   ` Chris Murphy
2019-12-13 21:41     ` Arno Wagner
2019-12-14  4:28   ` Robert Nichols
2019-12-14 14:42     ` Arno Wagner
2019-12-14 21:18       ` Chris Murphy
2019-12-15 17:51         ` Jordan Glover
2019-12-15 19:12           ` Arno Wagner [this message]
2019-12-15 20:49           ` Chris Murphy
2019-12-16 17:08             ` Jordan Glover
2019-12-16 18:24               ` Chris Murphy
2019-12-16 18:49                 ` Arno Wagner
2019-12-16 20:46                   ` Chris Murphy
2019-12-16 22:08                     ` Arno Wagner
2019-12-16 21:33                 ` Michael Kjörling
2019-12-16 22:17                   ` Chris Murphy
2019-12-17 17:07                 ` Jordan Glover
2019-12-18  0:24                   ` Arno Wagner

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