On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:05:53PM -0700, Modulok wrote: > On 1/17/11, Roland Smith <rsm...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 09:30:39PM +0100, Alokat wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> is it possible to encrypt my full harddrive (excluding /boot) during a > >> freebsd installation. Or do I have to do this after the installation > >> manually? > > > > Currently you have to do it manually afterwards. > > > > Personally, I would not bother encrypting the OS data; there is nothing > > secret > > there, and it does have a performance impact. Plus it would provide ample > > material for a known-plaintext attack! > > > > Modern ciphers such as AES are not susceptible to known plaintext > attacks.
That is indeed what it says on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Known-plaintext_attack. But without any source or other justification. In this case, I'd say [citation needed]! At one time Enigma and DES were regarded as unbreakable. :-) Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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