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Re:UtahFS: Encrypted File Storage by Legogris on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @08:52PM (#23472699)
What’s wrong with LUKS / tomb?
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Re:UtahFS: Encrypted File Storage by eric1293 on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @04:00AM (#23474939)
It's one big container. A small change means the whole file has to be uploaded again. If you are lucky for Dropbox blocks are synced only.

Also it lacks authentication. The snapshots of the XTS mode are prone to certain attacks.

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Re:UtahFS: Encrypted File Storage by Legogris on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @05:47AM (#23549593)
Regarding your first paragraph, that’s always going to be a tradeoff that has to be assessed based on threat model and resource budget, since doing it differently will inherently leak sidechannel information, right?

The second one, TIL and good points!

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