Why you want hardware-based disk encryption

Posted by Ken Y-N on June 28th, 2010 at 03:09pm

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 of the conclusions of the in-depth analysis was that unlike software encryption, the performance of SEDs was comparable to standard drives in all cases. As a result, “there is simply no incentive for users to remove or bypass the encryption, even if it were possible.”

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