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Re: Can you keep a secret? This encrypted drive can...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Damien Miller)
Wed Nov 1 21:58:53 2006

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Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 06:46:55 +1100 (EST)
From: Damien Miller <djm@mindrot.org>
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On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Saqib Ali wrote:

> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/10/30/BUGU2M1ETT1.DTL&type=printable
> http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20061030.wharddrive1029/BNStory/Front/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20061030.wharddrive1029
> http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/10/30/HNseagateagain_1.html

Who's secrets will they be keeping? Disk encryption and Object-based
storage (where the filesystem is basically pushed down closer to the
storage device, cf [1]) could be used to provide building blocks for
stronger DRM.

-d

[1] http://dl.alphaworks.ibm.com/technologies/osdsim/osdsim2.pdf

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