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Re: safety of encrypted filesystems



also sprach martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> [2005.06.17.0944 +0200]:
> also sprach Michael Buchholz <michael@bubi.dnsalias.net> [2005.06.17.0857 +0200]:
> > And also, when you write any block, you have to reencrypt all the
> > remaining blocks.
> 
> Yes, don't you?

From all I can tell, this is the case for EBC and CBC, but symmetric
cryptography is fast enough these days for this not to be a problem.

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