Given some of the weak ideas with regards to key management and distribution within the DC, I can see several situations where this is the _only_ benefit we get from volume encryption. From: Caitlin Bestler [mailto:Caitlin.Bestler at nexenta.com] Sent: 08 March 2013 14:50 To: OpenStack Development Mailing List Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] Volume Encryption Done properly, volume and/or object encryption eliminates the need to degauss drives before de-commissioning them. Encryption also protects against theft of the drives. Degaussing would only be effective against drive theft if the thieves were obliging enough to provide advance notice so you could degauss the specific drives just before they were stolen. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/attachments/20130308/36c881e2/attachment.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 6190 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/attachments/20130308/36c881e2/attachment.bin>