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[Discuss] Full disk encryption and backups



On Jan 3, 2012, at 5:11 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure I see the big problem with backups, unless you simply find
> file-level backups undesirable in general.

With WDE, you either decrypt-recrypt everything during backups which means that there is a point in the process where you have no security/privacy on the data, or you back up the entire container at the block level which makes single-file restores impossible (or at least rather convoluted).  WDE is a no-win, IMO.

--Rich P.





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