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February 17th, 2011 at 02:40pm
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Quite frankly, my first thought was "Is that all?" when I read a press release from Seagate talking about them reaching this milestone. My second thought was that there were some weasel words about Opal compliance: Several major original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are now qualifying Momentus SEDs that are compliant with the Trusted Computing Group’s [...]
Continue Reading Seagate sells one million self-encrypting drives
Tags: momentus, opal, seagate
By Ken Y-N
December 2nd, 2010 at 05:20pm
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The Trusted Computing Group official blog published an article by Mike Fratto on managing self-encrypting drives with Wave’s software. It does occasionally read a bit more like an advert than a review, but perhaps that indicates how impressed the reviewer was!
Continue Reading Wave Embassy Trusted Drive Manager
Tags: mike fratto, opal, wave
By Ken Y-N
October 1st, 2010 at 04:15pm
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The official Trusted Computing Group blog recently published a handy list of the various drives, both traditional and solid state, that support the full disk encryption Opal standard from the TCG, plus software packages that help you manage the drives.
Continue Reading Opal-compliant self-encrypting drives round-up
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By Ken Y-N
October 1st, 2010 at 04:09pm
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An interesting bit of news from itBusiness.ca has been that Seagate’s Momentus range of self-encrypting hard drives have been awarded FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard) 140-2 certification, meaning that they can now sell these Trusted Computing Group Opal-compliant drives to US and Canadian federal agencies and other governmental bodies that require FIPS certification on the [...]
Continue Reading Seagate’s self-encrypting drive gets FIPS certification
Tags: fips, opal, seagate
By Ken Y-N
August 18th, 2010 at 04:36pm
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A recent article sponsored by the Trusted Computing Group and published on Computer Technology Review looked at why self-encrypting drives are almost a legal necessity yet need not be expensive nor painful to introduce and manage. Furthermore, disk drives supporting TCG’s Opal specification for hardware-based encryption are around twice as fast as software-based systems.
Continue Reading Why you need self-encrypting drives
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By Ken Y-N
August 17th, 2010 at 04:07pm
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Toshiba have come out with an interesting concept, the self-deleting drive. Basically, a disk compliant with the Trusted Computing Group’s Opal full disk encryption standard can be erased instantly by just deleting the key, so what Toshiba has done is to allow the host device administrator to configure when the drive should be erased, such [...]
Continue Reading Self-encrypting Self-deleting Drives
Tags: opal, toshiba
By Ken Y-N
August 17th, 2010 at 03:59pm
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According to this post on the Trusted Computing Group’s official blog, Gartner have recently published two reports on self-encrypting drives, with a lot of space devoted to the TCG’s efforts regarding the Opal specification. The author predicts in one report that within five years all drives will ship with encryption as standard, and their testing [...]
Continue Reading Gartner evaluates self-encrypting drives
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By Ken Y-N
July 26th, 2010 at 04:26pm
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A recent article by Thomas Coughlin for the Gerson Lehrman Group discussed a few reasons why the Trusted Computing Group’s Opal specification for self-encrypting drives is also applicable to solid state (Flash) drives. Two benefits that I hadn’t realised were available are 1) the cryptographic secure erasure feature of Opal, zapping the decryption keys in [...]
Continue Reading Further benefits of Opal on Solid State Drives
Tags: gerson lehrman group, opal, thomas coughlin
By Ken Y-N
June 28th, 2010 at 03:09pm
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A recent post on Computer Technology Review by Robert Thibadeau, Ph.D. from Wave Systems on behalf of the Trusted Computing Group listed a number of reasons why one should encrypt notebook computers, and why a hardware solution such as the Opal specification from the Trusted Computing Group is the best. It reports a study: One [...]
Continue Reading Why you want hardware-based disk encryption
Tags: computer technology review, opal, wave
By Ken Y-N
June 7th, 2010 at 02:19pm
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BusinessWire recently published a press release from Hitachi on their new ultra-slim drives, a mere 7mm thick with a 2.5 inch platter, up to 320 GB capacity, and Trusted Computing Group’s Opal self-encrypting drive standard ready. Engadget also has a picture of said drive, but the hand holding it seems to be male in shape [...]
Continue Reading Hitachi’s super-slim self-encrypting drive
Tags: hitachi, opal
By Ken Y-N