Re: Product request - Enterprise whole disk encryption for laptops

[Harold Winshel <winshel () CAMDEN RUTGERS EDU>]

There might be actually two different issues in terms of protection
against a breach.

One, what is required in terms of not having a reportable event.

Two, what is required to give you the level of protection you seek
against breach, regardless of reportable event standards.

Harold



At 02:09 PM 7/15/2006, Roger Safian wrote:
> At 11:44 AM 7/15/2006, Valdis Kletnieks put fingers to keyboard and wrote:
> >These need to be *seriously* considered when contemplating desktop/laptop
> >encryption - I've seen all too many sites totally fail to understand this...
>
> So here's my question.
>
> I always considered encryption an exercise in risk management.
> The risk I am trying to prevent is that the theft of a
> computer will expose the data to the casual criminal.  I
> assume that someone serious about cracking the encrypted
> files will simply resort to other, and much more effective
> methods of ascertaining the correct passphrase.  So my
> question is this, just how long could I expect a passphrase,
> of at least 16 characters, composed on ONLY alpha-numeric
> characters, to withstand the attack?
>
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Harold Winshel
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