[Cryptography] encrypting hard drives (was Re: Shredding a file on a flash-based file system?)

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Thu Jun 19 19:17:46 EDT 2014


On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 6:05 PM, Dan McDonald <danmcd at kebe.com> wrote:
>> In the OpenZFS world, you deploy each OS's FDE underneath ZFS.
>
> For now, yes.  That's what you're stuck with.

That's actually not a problem.

> That blog is 3.5 years old.  I think things have likely improved since then.

Only if customer demand (pay) Oracle for it.

> From what I can tell (and yes, I *am* biased...) only a few in OpenZFS-land
> gives a rat's ass about interoperating with the Lawnmower.

After Oracle pissed on Sun and said fuck you to opensource,
that is expected. The ZFS model and code bulk are open now
and have a home. Check back in a year.


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