[133471] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Windows Encryption Software
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Thu Dec 9 20:21:07 2010
In-Reply-To: <BLU158-w17E4A4295BF7A14F078D67DC2F0@phx.gbl>
From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 20:20:40 -0500
To: Brandon Kim <brandon.kim@brandontek.com>
Cc: nanog group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Brandon Kim <brandon.kim@brandontek.com> wr=
ote:
> I want to know if there's software out there that will encrypt files on w=
in2k3, winxp, win7, so that if someone
> decides to steal the computer and plug the harddrive into a USB external =
case, they won't be able to read the files
> on the harddrive.
Save yourself some grief and buy a self-encrypting disk (SED) instead.
OS transparent so you won't have the endemic problems with oops it no
longer boots and I can't just boot a live cd and access my business
critical data.
-Bill
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