[Cryptography] Speeding up Linux disk encryption

Sven Semmler Sven at SvenSemmler.org
Fri Apr 9 18:17:15 EDT 2021


On 4/9/21 8:41 AM, Ray Dillinger wrote:
> My problem with disk encryption systems is that they tend to protect the
> disk contents right up until the system boots up, and not so much while
> it's running.

Another issue in that context is that the keys usually live in memory 
and can be extracted using various attacks.

/Sven

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