[Openstack] Encrypted virtual machines

Sean Dague sdague at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Apr 26 18:01:44 UTC 2012


On 04/26/2012 12:11 PM, Michael Grosser wrote:
> 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?

No, I think that's the right level of worry-some - 
http://www.contextis.co.uk/research/blog/dirtydisks/

	-Sean

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