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SubjectRe: partially encrypted filesystem
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Jörn Engel  wrote:
>Depends on how much security you really care about. If you really
>don't mind the pain involved, some metadata should explicitly *not* be
>encrypted, to avoid known plaintext attacks.

What? No. Modern cryptosystems are designed to be secure against
known plaintext attacks. Making your system more convoluted merely to
avoid providing known plaintext is a lousy design approach: the extra
complexity usually adds more risk than it removes.
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