Everything about Disk encryption

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Disk encryptionA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: ${\sf {FAST}}$: Disk encryption and beyondInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Unix System Administration HandbookThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: The impact of full disk encryption on digital forensicsCited 42 times
5. Go sideways: Hardware-based full disk encryptionA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Encrypting File SystemA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• The impact of full disk encryption on digital forensics

  Eoghan Casey, Gerasimos J. Stellatos · 2008 · ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review · 42 citations

• A Systematic Assessment of the Security of Full Disk Encryption

  Tilo Muller, Felix C. Freiling · 2015 · IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing · 22 citations

• The growing impact of full disk encryption on digital forensics

  Eoghan Casey, Geoff Fellows, Matthew Geiger · 2011 · Digital Investigation · 19 citations

• Discryption: Internal Hard-Disk Encryption for Secure Storage

  Laszlo Hars · 2007 · Computer · 16 citations

• The Thinnest Light Disk: Rewritable Data Storage and Encryption on WS2 Monolayers

  Weiwei Zhao, Shuang Cai, Xin Wei · 2021 · Advanced Functional Materials · 14 citations

• The XTS-AES Disk Encryption Algorithm and the Security of Ciphertext Stealing

  Matthew V. Ball, Cyril Guyot, James P. Hughes · 2012 · Cryptologia · 10 citations

• Mutual Authentication and Trust Bootstrapping towards Secure Disk Encryption

  Johannes Götzfried, Tilo Müller · 2014 · ACM Transactions on Information and System Security · 6 citations

• Polarization-vortex holographic encryption based on photo-oxidation of a plasmonic disk

  Jingying Miao, Shencheng Fu, Xin Li · 2022 · Optics Letters · 5 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• ${\sf {FAST}}$: Disk encryption and beyond

  Debrup Chakraborty, Sebati Ghosh, Cuauhtemoc Mancillas López · 2022 · Advances in Mathematics of Communications · 3 citations

• Data Encryption Mobile Storage Management Procedure Based on Virtual Disk

  · 2023 · NeuroQuantology · 0 citations

• Design of Secure Disk Encryption System Based on Embedded Control and AES Algorithm

  Dongxia Liao · 2026 · Journal of Testing and Evaluation · 0 citations

• Implementasi Secure Storage Menggunakan Metode Full Disk Encryption dan Tamper Proof pada Cloud Storage

  Barok Rizqi, Andriani Adi Lestari · 2023 · Info Kripto · 0 citations

• Reversible optical storage and multidimensional encryption disk design via Bi3+ doped Ca0.5Ba0.5WO4 photochromic materials

  Peixian Chen, Houshuo Zhou, Ce Li · 2026 · Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Unix System Administration HandbookEvi Nemeth, Garth Snyder · 1989
• The UNIX operating systemChristian, Kaare, Kaare Christian · 1983
• Digital planetGeorge Beekman, Ben Beekman · 2011
• Intelligent Technologies and Engineering SystemsJengnan Juang · 2013
• PGP companion for WindowsPeter Kent · 1995
• Discovering Computers 2018Misty E. Vermaat, Susan Sebok · 2017
• Geeks bearing giftsTed Nelson · 2009
• Microsoft Windows server 2012 inside outWilliam R. Stanek · 2012

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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