Seeing this advert/article made me think...Although Seagate have introduced an on-the-fly encrytion hard drive, such items are not very common.
Apart from the software solutions, it struck me that the only thing needed to turn an ordinary SATA hard drive into a 256bit AES encrypted drive is an extra hardware step between the hard drive and the motherboard. Like a dongle, or some kind of extra connection. Advantage of not having software overhead, and is really REALLY transparent. I haven't seen any hardware solution like this on the market. Does such a thing exist? It seems to me to be a perfect in-between. James ---- Original Message ---- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [FDE] 255bit AES encrypted USB drives from Kingston Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 17:59:46 -0800 (PST) >At the RSA Conference currently underway in San Francisco, Kingston >Technology Inc. is showcasing their latest offerings of "DataTravel >Secure" USB flash drives. These drives utilize on-the-fly 256bit AES >encryption on all data that is stored on the drives. Moreover given >that >the encryption is handled by the hardware on the USB flash drive, >there is >no performance load on the host computer. One interesting aspect of >these >secure drives is that, on some models, it is possible to setup both a > >public and a private partitions. This allows the user to place >sensitive >files on the secure private section that only he/she can access, >while >leaving the open public section for general file sharing with others. >Full >product description on the Kingston secure USB drives is available >from >(http://www.kingston.com/flash/enterpriseusb/default.asp). > >_______________________________________________ >FDE mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.xml-dev.com/mailman/listinfo/fde _______________________________________________ FDE mailing list [email protected] http://www.xml-dev.com/mailman/listinfo/fde
