Re: encrypted file system issues (was Re: PGP "master keys")

2006-05-02 Thread Bill Frantz
[A bit off topic but I thought I'd let it through anyway. Those uninterested in OS design should skip the rest of this message. --Perry] On 5/1/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Perry E. Metzger) wrote: >Disk encryption systems like CGD work >on the block level, and do not propagate CBC operations across bl

Re: encrypted file system issues (was Re: PGP "master keys")

2006-05-01 Thread Travis H.
On 5/1/06, Perry E. Metzger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Not if you design it correctly. Disk encryption systems like CGD work on the block level, and do not propagate CBC operations across blocks, So is it vulnerable to any of the attacks here? http://clemens.endorphin.org/LinuxHDEncSettings I

encrypted file system issues (was Re: PGP "master keys")

2006-05-01 Thread Perry E. Metzger
"Travis H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone have any experience with disk or filesystem encryption, > especially with regard to unclean shutdowns and power failures? Normal > file systems are designed to fail in ways that are easy to > clean up with fsck, but when you start to throw encr