Re: List of Full Disc Encryption products

["Alex Koh" <alex.koh () i-admin com>]

CompuSec is also a free and full disk encryption program. Do try to search 
for it in Google.

Alex
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ow Mun Heng" <Ow.Mun.Heng () wdc com>
To: "Saqib Ali" <docbook.xml () gmail com>
Cc: "security-basics" <security-basics () securityfocus com>
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 6:38 AM
Subject: Re: List of Full Disc Encryption products


> On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 09:04 -0700, Saqib Ali wrote:
> > With recent data thefts and government mandates, the importance of
> > full disc encryption is being realized. Encrypting individual files or
> > storing data in encrypted vaults does NOT meet the security
> > requirements anymore. Corporation and Government institution want the
> > whole HDD to be encrypted including the temporary files and swap
> > space.
>
> I think you missed out Truecrypt which is by far (AFAIK) the only cross
> platform program that works in both Window
> and the Linux platforms. (and it's open source to boot as well) which is
> a very important consideration when it comes to security products.
>
> www.truecrypt.org
>
> I also looked at the specifcation of SeCude, Am I mistaken to read that
> in it's "most secure" form, it uses a USB disk/smart card and boots
> LINUX
>
> [SNIP]
> The highest degree of security is provided by authentication based on
> smart cards or USB tokens. With smart card-based deployment, the
> computer is booted using a hardened Linux distribution. Even before the
> actual operating system (Microsoft Windows) is started, the user is
> authenticated with the smart card. This prevents unauthorized access to
> data effectively.
> [/SNIP]
>
>
>
>
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