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

[Travis H.]

On 5/1/06, Perry E. Metzger <perry at piermont.com> 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 used to run NetBSD 1.6 IIRC, and for some reason cgd was in previous
and later releases but not that one.  I found that puzzling.
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