Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote:
for a little drift ... another crypto related thread (FDE ... full disk encryption) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm26.htm#23 It's a Presidential Mandate, Feds use it. How come you are not using FDE?
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007c.html#1 Decoding the encryption puzzle the older article Feds crawl toward encryption http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/009492.html from above: Such appears to be the case with this year's infamous data-leak episode of millions of U.S. veterans' private information last May, which prompted the White House to issue a presidential mandate [PDF] requiring all agency mobile laptops and devices storing sensitive data to have fully encrypted hard drives. ... snip ... and the referenced gov. document http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/memoranda/fy2006/m06-16.pdf new article Firms face pressure to encrypt data http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2007/01/18/firms_face_pressure_to_encrypt_data/ and new item on vulnerability Retail security breach may be biggest in U.S. http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/19/business/data.php and, of course, old posting on security proportional to risk http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001h.html#61 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
