[Cryptography] Security on TRIM for full-disk encrypted SSDs

[Linus van Geuns]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 7:52 PM, james hughes <hughejp at me.com> wrote:
>
> On Apr 19, 2016, at 5:03 PM, Valmiky Arquissandas
> <crypto-metzdowd at kayvlim.com> wrote:
>
> I understand at least some of the theory - encrypted information is supposed
> to be indistinguishable from random noise, and TRIM reveals patterns; and a
> plausible deniability scenario would probably be unacceptable.
>
>
> Can you please explain?
>
> Assuming reasonable encryption, I do not understand what patters are being
> revealed.

He is probably talking about filesystem patterns:
http://asalor.blogspot.de/2011/08/trim-dm-crypt-problems.html

Gruß, Linus