Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] block: Deprecate QCOW/QCOW2 encryption

2015-03-16 Thread Kevin Wolf
Am 13.03.2015 um 21:09 hat Markus Armbruster geschrieben: > We've steered users away from QCOW/QCOW2 encryption for a while, > because it's a flawed design (commit 136cd19 Describe flaws in > qcow/qcow2 encryption in the docs). > > In addition to flawed crypto, we have comically bad usability, and

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] block: Deprecate QCOW/QCOW2 encryption

2015-03-16 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 09:09:40PM +0100, Markus Armbruster wrote: > We've steered users away from QCOW/QCOW2 encryption for a while, > because it's a flawed design (commit 136cd19 Describe flaws in > qcow/qcow2 encryption in the docs). > > In addition to flawed crypto, we have comically bad usabi

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] block: Deprecate QCOW/QCOW2 encryption

2015-03-13 Thread Eric Blake
On 03/13/2015 02:09 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote: > We've steered users away from QCOW/QCOW2 encryption for a while, > because it's a flawed design (commit 136cd19 Describe flaws in > qcow/qcow2 encryption in the docs). > > In addition to flawed crypto, we have comically bad usability, and > plain

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] block: Deprecate QCOW/QCOW2 encryption

2015-03-13 Thread Markus Armbruster
I fat-fingered Dan's e-mail address. I apologize for the inconvenience.

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] block: Deprecate QCOW/QCOW2 encryption

2015-03-13 Thread Markus Armbruster
We've steered users away from QCOW/QCOW2 encryption for a while, because it's a flawed design (commit 136cd19 Describe flaws in qcow/qcow2 encryption in the docs). In addition to flawed crypto, we have comically bad usability, and plain old bugs. Let me show you. = Example images = I'm going to