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Re: Full Disk Encryption


From: "Spransy, Derek" <DSPRANS () EMORY EDU>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:07:41 -0500

I don't believe that are any FDE products for Mac.  Filevault is really
the only option.  I think a major stumbling block to Mac FDE is pre-boot
authentication.  

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott O. Bradner [mailto:sob () HARVARD EDU] 
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 9:39 AM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Full Disk Encryption

So, what product(s) is everyone using for full-disk on Macs?

I agree with teh previous comment on Filevault - it encrypts
teh parts of the disk where a user will be putting things - yes a
user can get around that if they want to enough but ...

Scott

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