Software-based FDE products install a "filter driver" and transparently encrypt/decrypt disk sectors on-demand.
G ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fran Baena" <franba...@gmail.com> To: <FDE@www.xml-dev.com> Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 5:42 AM Subject: [FDE] how FDE is implemented at system layer > Hi everyone, > > i'm a newbie in FDE and i'm interested in how all this protecting > methods are implemented in OS level. I mean, the cryptographic > mechanism is more or less clear, but how does it interact with the > file system layer? Does the OS vendor provide an API to manage all the > I/O operations that implies disk encryption/decryption? > > Thanks for your help > > Fran > _______________________________________________ > FDE mailing list > FDE@www.xml-dev.com > http://www.xml-dev.com/mailman/listinfo/fde > _______________________________________________ FDE mailing list FDE@www.xml-dev.com http://www.xml-dev.com/mailman/listinfo/fde
