[Arm-netbook] hardware encrypted flash drive idea with gpl3 license

[Philip Hands]

Christopher Havel <laserhawk64 at gmail.com> writes:

> Forgive my inevitable naivety with regard to this sort of thing, but can't
> gparted create encrypted partitions, and why wouldn't that be secure
> enough...? My understanding is that it still takes a few hundred years to
> crack AES encryption with a standard PC... and the average criminals who
> are likely to blackmail you, I can't imagine they're well funded enough to
> buy a supercomputer sufficient to pop the lid on those things in a
> reasonably timely fashion.
>
> Of course, if you piss off the Russian Mob, that's different, at least
> potentially... but that's also a comparatively pretty rare circumstance,
> I'd think.

Obligatory XKCD:   https://www.xkcd.com/538/  ;-)

Cheers, Phil.
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