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Re: Windows Encryption Software


From: Florian Weimer <fw () deneb enyo de>
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:21:19 +0100

* Brandon Kim:

I know windows has bitlocker, but I don't know if that is available
for Win2003?

I believe EFS is available in Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server, too.

Software-based solutions have the advantage that they are somewhat
more testable and reviewable.  If it's all in the disk, you can't
really be sure that the data is encrypted with a static key, and the
passphrase is used for access control only.  The latter approach seems
to be somewhat common with encrypting storage devices, unfortunately.


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