RE: [unisog] OT: Putting Encyption Functions in the HDDs

["Thomas D." <whistl0r () googlemail com>]

Hello,

> I guess those drives must be tightly integrated with the laptop
> itself? Via some sort of trusted computing controler? If so, what
> laptop vendors do support this? Probably IBM... but how about others?
> Passwords are not too safe so how about smart card support? How does
> that work? Again probably very integrated with the laptop.

I would recommend software, which will fully encrypt your harddisk drive. If
your laptop will be lost, you won't have to think about any data left...

I recommend "Utimaco SafeGuard Easy" (www.utimaco.com).
Here a list of other software products:

* DriveCrypt (www.securstar.com)
* PGP Desktop 9.0 Professional
(http://www.pgp.com/products/desktop/professional/index.html)
* TrueCrypt, OpenSource (www.truecrypt.org)


For myself I am using "Utimaco SafeGuard Easy" on my IBM Thinkpad.
Since version 4.20, it will use the implemented TPM-chip...
But without TPM, it also safe ;-)


-- 
Whistl0r



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