From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from maude.comedia.it (maude.comedia.it [77.93.254.181]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.saout.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS for ; Sat, 17 Jul 2010 09:58:26 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by maude.comedia.it (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1708486FCA for ; Sat, 17 Jul 2010 09:58:26 +0200 (CEST) Received: from maude.comedia.it ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (maude.comedia.it [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10025) with LMTP id VEX45jBf2NXZ for ; Sat, 17 Jul 2010 09:58:21 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 09:58:21 +0200 From: Luca Berra Message-ID: <20100717075820.GA3626@maude.comedia.it> References: <20100717071313.GA7243@fancy-poultry.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100717071313.GA7243@fancy-poultry.org> Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] Hybrid drives List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: dm-crypt@saout.de 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. -- Luca Berra -- bluca@comedia.it Communication Media & Services S.r.l. /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN X AGAINST HTML MAIL / \