On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 01:54:13AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The big catch is that the drive supports encryption, but you have to have
something to make it encrypt. If you have an IBM 3584 library, then you can
upgrade the firmware AND use an IBM software package to do key management
(Jamie Jamison); veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO Generation 4 tape throughput
with on-drive encryption
The big catch is that the drive supports encryption, but
you have to have something to make it encrypt. If you have
an IBM 3584 library, then you can
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To: JAJA (Jamie Jamison); veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO Generation 4 tape throughput
with on-drive
I hosted a SNUG meeting in October on the topic of LTO4 Encryption. HP claims
to do it at speed because compression is done before encryption. No space or
speed overhead. I haven't tried it personally yet.
However, as many have mentioned, the real trick is key management. As of
October, ALL
: Friday, December 07, 2007 10:40 AM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO Generation 4 tape throughput with on-drive
encryption
I hosted a SNUG meeting in October on the topic of LTO4 Encryption. HP
claims
to do it at speed because compression is done before encryption
I'm researching the purchase of a new library with LTO generation 4 tape
drives and am interested in using the on-drive encryption to encrypt my
backup tapes so that if a box of tapes ever falls off of the Iron
Mountain truck I'm not having to explain things to the board of
directors and legal,
The big catch is that the drive supports encryption, but you have to have
something to make it encrypt. If you have an IBM 3584 library, then you can
upgrade the firmware AND use an IBM software package to do key management for
encryption.
Just because you have an LTO-4 drive does not mean
