starting Fedora Server SIG

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Wed Nov 12 22:00:47 UTC 2008



On Wed, 12 Nov 2008, Alan Cox wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:09:17PM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> Don't be so sure about that.  In a colo environment I /would/ want some
>> encryption on the disk, and if I have to use a remote kvm to input the
>
> If you are storing personal data on a system in a colo its practically mandatory
> to have encryption, and if you are storing anything sensitive its a big deal
> indeed - at least in those parts of the world with real data and privacy law ;)
>

And with more things using xen/kvm instances you can have the encryption 
work inside the install and access the console for typing in a password in 
a variety of interesting ways.

-sv




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