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Fedora 41 Change Proposal: Self Encrypting Drives Support in the Installer (self-contained) (discussion.fedoraproject.org)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/linux

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A new proposal to have optional support for native hardware encryption (TCG OPAL2 standard)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How do we know that the hardware encrypts the data correctly? Can we observe ciphertext?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I wouldn't trust any drive that offers the feature. We already know that those that have that thing to delete files or wtv it is called doesn't work well, I would not touch with a foot long stick anything related to crypto on the hardware level.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

For a drive with throwaway data where performance might be a concern but data protect is a nice-to-have it’s fine. Think games or a cache disk for art workstations