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SubjectRe: [PATCH 00/14] EVM
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On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 5:57 AM, James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, Mimi Zohar wrote:
>
>> SELinux, Smack, Capabilities, and IMA all use extended attributes. The
>> purpose of EVM is to detect offline tampering of these security extended
>> attributes.
>
> One issue mentioned to me off-list is that if EVM is only protecting
> against offline attacks, why not just encrypt the entire volume ?

Are you sure that EVM protects against offline attacks only?

Why and why not encrypt the whole volume?

> This would provide confidentiality and integrity protection for all data
> and metadata, rather than just integrity for xattr metadata.


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Shaz


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