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May 7th, 2009 at 02:37pm
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In an online republishing of a full article from SCMagazine UK entitled Built-in encryption is the future of storage, Jessica Twentyman argues that industry must, and will be forced by legislation, to adopt full disk encryption as the best line of defense for data at rest. The best option is built-in low-level encryption such as [...]
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By Ken Y-N
April 14th, 2009 at 02:25pm
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Engadget recently republished a press release from Samsung on full disk encryption for solid state drives. Samsung will soon be shipping self-encrypting Flash memory-based solid state drives, in sizes of 256GB, 128GB, and 64GB, but with no pricing information. They will come with Wave System’s EMBASSY management software suite to allow secure backup and restore, [...]
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By Ken Y-N
March 23rd, 2009 at 02:42pm
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According to the ITExaminer, there has been a release of a cross-platform, full-disk encryption utility by Winmagic. The bit of interest for me is that: The utility also supports a number of hardware-encrypted disk drives, including those designed using TCG’s (Trusted Computing Group) ‘Opal’ specification. As I’ve said many times before, the TPM-based low-level full [...]
Continue Reading Winmagic releases cross-platform encryption utility
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By Ken Y-N
February 9th, 2009 at 03:22pm
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In a look at the latests TCG Secure Storage specifications, Computerworld reports that experts predict all drives will be self-encrypting in five years. I think that full disk encryption is the TCG standard that is most immediately relevant to the average end-user, so such moves would be more than welcome by me.
Continue Reading Computerworld predicts all hard drives self-encrypting in five years
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By Ken Y-N
February 8th, 2009 at 03:21pm
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TechRepublic’s Servers and Storage blog posted about server-side full disk encryption based upon the TCG standards. The full article is a good summary of the four standards released to cover the data centre, local hard drives, interface standards, and optical disks. The conclusion is: I believe it’s a matter of time before governments pass laws [...]
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By Ken Y-N
January 31st, 2009 at 03:14pm
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On the Encryption, Cryptography, Law, and Privacy Discussion Forum mirrored to the Cryptography, Law and Privacy Blog I saw an article on full-disk encryption and TCG standards. It all seems a bit paranoid, quite frankly, implying that FDE is going to lull you into a false sense of security then lock out all your data. [...]
Continue Reading Objections raised to full-disk encryption
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By Ken Y-N
January 30th, 2009 at 03:24pm
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Following the release of the TCG’s full disk encryption standard for hard drives, The Register complains about tapes and solid state drives being omitted.
Continue Reading The Register complains about no tape or solid state drive standards
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By Ken Y-N
January 28th, 2009 at 03:13pm
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Fudzilla’s Nick Farrell reported on the impending release of the full-disk encryption standard from the Trusted Computing Group. One issue I have with the article is: When a USB drive is unplugged, or when a laptop is powered down, or when an administrator pulls a drive from a server, it can’t be brought back up [...]
Continue Reading TCG’s full-disk encryption standard announced
Tags: fudzilla, full disk encryption
By Ken Y-N
January 8th, 2009 at 02:06pm
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iTWire reported on the impending release of the Trusted Computing Group’s Storage Security Specification v1.0 for enterprise computers, to be followed by a similar one for laptop computers.
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By Ken Y-N
January 8th, 2009 at 02:05pm
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iTWire reported on the impending release of the Trusted Computing Group’s Storage Security Specification v1.0 for enterprise computers, to be followed by a similar one for laptop computers.
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By Ken Y-N