[Cryptography] LUKS on ATA versus on SSD

Chris Frey cdfrey at foursquare.net
Fri Jan 2 08:07:46 EST 2026


On Wed, Dec 31, 2025 at 11:54:14PM +0000, Douglas Lucas wrote:
> For a nomadic freelance journalist, does it matter whether I deploy LUKS
> for drive encryption on an ATA drive or on an SSD drive?

Check out the cryptsetup FAQ, which makes multiple mentions of SSD
drives.  Especially section 5.19:

	https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/-/blob/main/FAQ.md

- Chris



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