They are not yet widely available, but they are starting to come out with self-encrypting hard drives. I'm not sure how the key management works, I assume via a special driver. I have also read about some self-encrypting hard drives that change their crypt keys if they are powered down or disconnected, thus effectively making the data unavailable.
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 6:46 AM, Edward Ned Harvey <lop...@nedharvey.com>wrote: > > From: tech-boun...@lopsa.org [mailto:tech-boun...@lopsa.org] On Behalf > > > Of Edward Ned Harvey > > > > > > Presently, I have Mac and Windows laptop users. The mac users use > > > encrypted sparsebundles, and the windows users use TrueCrypt for > > > encryption. There are a lot of reasons whole disk encryption would be > > > desirable - mostly in terms of backups. > > > > Ah, yeah. Acronis True Image (and whole-disk backup software in general) > don't work with whole-disk encryption in general. There are some exceptions > ... Some Casper product explicitly created to work with PGP for example... > > > > I wonder if there's a hardware solution, that would make the encrypted disk > transparent to the OS, and hence, all the backup tools and other tools you > might use in the OS would remain functional... > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech@lopsa.org > http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > >
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