On 8/14/2019 6:22 AM, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote:
Hello,

niedz., 11 sie 2019 o 14:35 Lauri Kiiski <lauri.kii...@iki.fi <mailto:lauri.kii...@iki.fi>> napisał(a):

    - Encrypt disks on the machines having these components: File
    Daemon, Director, Catalog, Storage Daemon, Physical Media


Eeeee, I do not understand. What do you want to keep secret?

Did you know that a double encryption does not increase the security level?


That is a bit inaccurate. It is equivalent to increasing the key size by one bit. It has been used before, as in the case of 3DES (triple DES). DES used a 56-bit key and eventually could be broken by brute force on a simple PC, so as a stop-gap they applied the same 56-bit key algorithm tree times, so increased the effective key size from 2^56 to 2^58. So it generally isn't worth it, but it does increase security a little bit.

I think, though, that Lauri is referring to encrypt the metadata that is stored unencrypted in a disk volume by somehow encrypting the whole disk.


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