• ATS1312@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    14 days ago

    Anyone else convinced AES-256 is not long enough a but length for full disk encryption anymore? Even the 512-bit schemes are just trying some offset-salts that, with ~10TB I worry about providing close-enough statistical significance for cryptanalysis.

    With 100TB drives?! I am less worried and more… convinced its a problem.

    • naeap@sopuli.xyz
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      14 days ago

      I have to admit, that I never looked into the technical details of full disk encryption

      If I understand you correctly, they are using the same key for all the data and with larger amounts of data statistical analysis becomes feasible
      Did I get this right?

      Couldn’t that be solved by using a root key + salt per block/sector/file/whatever?

      I’d still only need the one root key and with every block the actual encryption key changes

      I was thinking about perfect forward secrecy and that was the first thing, I could come up with

      But, I’m absolutely not a crypto/math guy, so probably I don’t know enough to really add something to the discussion/solution…