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> Userspace encryption of user data has been almost universally rejected because there's no reasonable attack on it - Any attacker that has access to the data also has access to the encryption key.

So don't you mean there's no reasonable defense against an attack on it? If the "attack" is to just decrypt it with the decryption key the attacker also finds, that seems very reasonable. :-)




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