How safe is encrypted disks? (data integrity)
Erik Norgaard
norgaard at locolomo.org
Sun Dec 10 12:07:29 PST 2006
Hi:
I have been thinking to make /home on my laptop encrypted - seems like a
good idea if it gets stolen. Now, how safe is this? Not in terms of the
strength of the encryption algorithm, but in terms of integrity.
What happens in case of power failure, the battery runs out or system
crashes for whatever reason?
Normally this is not a big problem if it is temporary data anyway such
as the Firefox cache, but I'd hate if this can take the entire disk down
the drain...
Thanks, Erik
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