Self Encrypting Drives Support in the Installer This is a proposed Change for Fedora Linux. This document represents a proposed Change. As part of the Changes process, proposals are publicly announced in order to receive community feedback. This proposal will only be implemented if approved by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee. Wiki Announced 🔗 Summary Add optional support for using native hardware encryption on TCG OPAL2 compliant drives when configuring disk encryption in th...
A new proposal to have optional support for native hardware encryption (TCG OPAL2 standard)
I wouldn’t trust any drive that offers the feature. We already know that those that have that thing to delete files or wtv it is called doesn’t work well, I would not touch with a foot long stick anything related to crypto on the hardware level.
How do we know that the hardware encrypts the data correctly? Can we observe ciphertext?
I wouldn’t trust any drive that offers the feature. We already know that those that have that thing to delete files or wtv it is called doesn’t work well, I would not touch with a foot long stick anything related to crypto on the hardware level.