[Openstack] Encrypted virtual machines

Michael Grosser dev at seetheprogress.net
Thu Apr 26 16:11:22 UTC 2012


Data left on broken disks would be unreadable. --> You don't have to worry
about data destruction before selling/throwing out your disks.
  (That could be realized via encrypting the whole compute-node disk, but
that's not quite what I want.)
Another benefit would be, that you as a cloud user wouldn't have to worry
about the provider accessing your data. (Encrypting every vms disk for
additional security.)

Or am I seeing this too worry-some?

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Matt Joyce <matt at nycresistor.com> wrote:

> From a security stand point I am curious what you see the benefit as?
>
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Michael Grosser <dev at seetheprogress.net>
> wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > I'm following the openstack development for some time now and I was
> > wondering if there was a solution to spin up encrypted virtual machines
> by
> > default and if it would be a huge performance blow.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Cheers Michael
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