Richard Pieri wrote: > om Metro wrote: >> I'm not sure I see the big problem with backups, unless you simply >> find file-level backups undesirable in general. > > With WDE, you either decrypt-recrypt everything during backups which > means that there is a point in the process where you have no > security/privacy on the data...
Ummm...yeah. You do realize that in order to use your data you need to decrypt it, right? :-) You can make a case that decrypting and then re-encrypting data before you send it off the machine to your backup service is inefficient, but it isn't insecure. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
