Hi Michael, Michel Messerschmidt wrote:
For example, encrypted filesystems are almost always useful to prevent data leakage from abandoned hardware (think of all the harddisks sold on ebay). Also any file encrypted by a user improves the security by reducing the time the data is accessible and subject to attacks.
For harddisk encryption on servers this is senseless. The disk is always online (therefore not protected) and before you sell it on ebay you can always use some tool to overwrite it with random data. For broken disks you'll find a strong magnet or even better a company that shreds them. To use encryption for this purpose is a waste of time and resources. Greetings, Ralf --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-security+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-security+help@opensuse.org