Re: RFE: Transparent encryption on all fields

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On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 01:28:45AM -0700, Sam Halliday wrote:
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> Tomas Zerolo wrote:
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> >> If there were a way to prompt the user for the password to an encrypted 
> >> drive on startup for all OS, with an equivalent for headless machines... 

[...]

> There is a difference between "it's possible" and "there is". I know of no
> such standard support of either of the standard OSes.

Sorry. Denial doesn't help. It's not only "possible", it's being done
all the time. Cf. <http://www.saout.de/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=LUKS>,
for example. But you are attacking a strawman anyway.

Client-side decryption matches much better what you had in mind -- and
I think it's provably no less secure (and more convenient).

The only hypothetical advantage of server-side encryption (there might
be an opportunity of indexing) seems to be so mired in technical
difficulties (if you want to avoid information leaks anyway) that I
can't even imagine whether it's a real advantage.

Regards
- -- tomás
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