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nicceyesterday at 5:07 PM1 replyview on HN

Depends on what kind of data is in question. Backups and old incremential data can stay encrypted while disks are otherwise in use.


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stavrosyesterday at 5:08 PM

Hm yeah, I always think of encryption at rest as "the drive handles encryption itself", rather than "we encrypted these archives before we wrote them", but fair enough.

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