Re: [dm-crypt] Efficacy of xts over 1TB

[Arno Wagner <arno@wagner.name>]

On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 07:26:44PM +0200, Uwe Menges wrote:
> On 07/27/2010 01:42 AM, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote:
> > Of course, your attacker has to be able to capture a snapshot after the
> > first fill-up ... probably via some forensic magic - people who believe
> > in encryption often tend to also still believe in Peter Gutmann :)
> 
> No forensic magic is needed if you are eg. using a LUKS crypted iSCSI
> volume and the attacker is able to mirror you network traffic.
> 
> Cheers, Uwe

Well, if the attacker mirrors your network traffic with iSCSI, 
encryption does not matter anymore for any change analysis.

But using such a set-up wpuld be pretty stupid anayways.... ;-)

Arno

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