Subject: Re: CBC and LRW?
To: Travis H. <solinym@gmail.com>
From: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
List: tech-security
Date: 07/29/2006 15:00:01
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Travis H. wrote:

> 3) You can do it at the device level, like cgd...
> This has the disadvantage that backup must either be of the plaintext
> filesystem over it, or the entire encrypted partition.

This is not necessarially a disadvantage. Backing up the plaintext
filesystem is for me the ideal case, since my backups are encrypted
before leaving the host.

cjs
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