Re: Encrypted VM's (was Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...)

2010-07-21 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 20:21:56 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: > > This way -the VM can be booted no prob with unencrypted root - but user > of VM gets privacy. Only against after the fact attempts to recover the data. If you are under surveilance when you access the vm, your keys can be capt

Re: Encrypted VM's (was Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...)

2010-07-20 Thread Genes MailLists
On 07/20/2010 03:11 PM, Michael Semcheski wrote: > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:27 PM, wrote: >> Just in general, what's the point in having server-disks (either local or >> "in-the-cloud" encrypted? >> As soon as you start them up, all we be de-crypted and your system is only >> protected by norm

Re: Encrypted VM's (was Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...)

2010-07-20 Thread Michael Semcheski
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:27 PM, wrote: > Just in general, what's the point in having server-disks (either local or > "in-the-cloud" encrypted? > As soon as you start them up, all we be de-crypted and your system is only > protected by normal security measures. > > Only usefull purpose might be

RE: Encrypted VM's (was Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...)

2010-07-20 Thread J.Witvliet
-Original Message- From: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Michael Semcheski Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 6:03 PM To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: Encrypted VM's (was Re: OT: Cloud Computing is comi

Encrypted VM's (was Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...)

2010-07-20 Thread Michael Semcheski
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > A properly-designed cloud computing solution is one where the virtual > machines being hosted in the cloud can be fully encrypted so that the > hosting provider cannot (feasibly) glean any information from them. I do not see a point of