[133484] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Windows Encryption Software
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Orthoefer)
Fri Dec 10 08:13:32 2010
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimrzKJ78MH1NCoExJnzQ9ou64RcxrD-fXLRmagX@mail.gmail.com>
From: John Orthoefer <jco@direwolf.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:12:20 -0500
To: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Cc: nanog group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I've been using these and they work great as long as you are using BIOS boot=
, they don't work with out additional software, with the Mac EFI boot.=20
Johno
On Dec 9, 2010, at 20:20, William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Brandon Kim <brandon.kim@brandontek.com> w=
rote:
>> 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 c=
ase, they won't be able to read the files
>> on the harddrive.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> -Bill
>=20
>=20
> --=20
> William D. Herrin ................ herrin@dirtside.com bill@herrin.us
> 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/>
> Falls Church, VA 22042-3004
>=20
