On Sun, Feb 03, 2019 at 18:57:42 CET, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > On Sun, 2019-02-03 at 18:34 +0100, Arno Wagner wrote: > > Specrte and Meltdown are indeed nice examples why that can > > backfire damatically. Security, like most good engineering, > > is about redundancy. You cut a bit here and a bit there and > > suddenly you are nacked. Not good at all. [...] > Anyway, guess there is nothing more upstream can/should do about > this... it's good to have an option to enable TRIM (for those who > deliberately want it) and it's good that it's not the default. > If distros choose to possibly weaken security, it's up to them and > unfortunately their users. I agree on that one. All we can reasonably do is warn. Although being a security expert does feel like being a climate scientists sometimes.... Regards, Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., Email: arno@xxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG: ID: CB5D9718 FP: 12D6 C03B 1B30 33BB 13CF B774 E35C 5FA1 CB5D 9718 ---- A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. -- Plato If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx https://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
