From: Christoph Anton Mitterer <christoph.anton.mitterer@physik.uni-muenchen.de>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] Hybrid drives
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 12:57:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1279364251.3289.9.camel@fermat.scientia.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100717071313.GA7243@fancy-poultry.org>
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On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 09:13 +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?
Why? If you completely encrypt everything,... nothing unencrypted should
ever reach the disk? And the header is open readable anyway (of course
the keys are encrypted).
Cheers,
Chris.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-17 10:57 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
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 [this message]
2010-07-18 17:01 ` Arno Wagner
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