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[Clips] Seagate announces encrypted laptop drives
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (R.A. Hettinga)
Wed Jun 22 09:56:47 2005
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Ars Technica
Seagate announces encrypted laptop drives
6/21/2005 4:02:56 PM, by Eric Bangeman
For those reliant on laptops for work, data security can often be an issue,
especially if the laptop is stolen. Various third-party encryption tools
are available, but Seagate looks to one-up them with its new
Hardware-Based Full Disc Encryption (FDE). Slated to begin shipping in
2006, the drives automatically encrypt data as it is written to the drive.
Seagate will offer hardware-based full disc encryption technology on its
new Momentus FDE family of hard drives, providing the industry's strongest
protection against unauthorized access to data on stolen or retired
notebook PCs. FDE technology requires only a user key to encrypt all data,
not just selected files or partitions, on the drive.
FDE uses Triple DES to do the job and will be available on its Momentus
5400 2.5" hard drives for laptops in sizes ranging from 40GB to 120GB.
Seagate also claims the drives will have performance identical to other
5400 rpm drives without the built-in encryption. Pricing has not been
announced, but expect to pay a premium for the FDE drives.
These drives should prove very popular in certain industries, especially
with defense contractors and others who deal with sensitive or classified
information. Even if a laptop with an FDE drive is stolen or retired
without the drives being wiped, the data on there will be unreadable
without the user key. Data recovery services will still be able to pull the
raw data from drives, although it too will be encrypted. Maybe the IT
department over at Los Alamos will invest in a few of these babies-then
they won't have to worry if one of their drives disappears.
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