Seagate's Full Disk Encryption
Seagate has introduced a hard drive with full-disk encryption.
The 2.5-inch drive offers full encryption of all data directly on the drive through a software key that resides on a portion of the disk nobody but the user can access. Every piece of data that crosses the interface encrypted without any intervention by the user, said Brian Dexheimer, executive vice president for global sales and marketing at the Scotts Valley, Calif.-based company.
Here’s the press release, and here’s the product spec sheet. Ignore the “TDEA 192” nonsense. It’s a typo; the product uses triple-DES, and the follow-on product will use AES.
Clive Robinson • June 27, 2005 7:33 AM
Full disk encryption is not new IBM fielded one as a prototype some time ago (about 5 years I think).
Guess what one of the reasons quoted for using it was what we now call DRM…