From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from v1.tansi.org (mail.tansi.org [84.19.178.47]) by mail.server123.net (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Sun, 15 Dec 2019 20:12:05 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2019 20:12:04 +0100 From: Arno Wagner Message-ID: <20191215191203.GA960@tansi.org> References: <2b1f731d-0713-fadf-f895-b62b00363a95@gmail.com> <20191214144236.GA12121@tansi.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] LUKS2 support for null/plaintext target List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Jordan Glover Cc: Chris Murphy , "dm-crypt@saout.de" 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 -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., Email: arno@wagner.name GnuPG: ID: CB5D9718 FP: 12D6 C03B 1B30 33BB 13CF B774 E35C 5FA1 CB5D 9718 ---- A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. -- Plato If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier