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 -- Sean Dague IBM Linux Technology Center email: sldague at us.ibm.com alt-email: sdague at linux.vnet.ibm.com