Re: The future of disk encryption with LUKS2

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On ven., 2016-02-05 at 12:02 +0100, Arno Wagner wrote:
> > Think external drives / removable storage?
> 
> An attacker with physical access that you do not notice has 
> won. Storage encryption does not protect here. Think, for 
> example, "evil maid" type attacks. Storage encryption
> is only for theft of the device (which you notice) or 
> attacker access which you notice in other ways.

This is exactly why integrity matters? The point is to have an usb drive /
external disk *fully* encrypted. The decryption is done by the host (which is
trusted). In that case, confidentiality and integrity are both important.

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis

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