Hi Simon, Your information is not fully correct. You can get specification and application notes from TCG website https://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/specs/Storage/ They are open and available for free. You are right about implementations. But I would like to add "yet". TCG storage workgroup is working with open source community. Just stay tuned :) Dmitry
_____ From: fde-boun...@www.xml-dev.com [mailto:fde-boun...@www.xml-dev.com] On Behalf Of Simson Garfinkel Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2009 7:49 AM To: fde@www.xml-dev.com Subject: Re: [FDE] how FDE is implemented at system layer I would love to have some FDE hardware drives, but the hour I spent at the Seagate website didn't tell me how the key was established. Can I just buy such a drive and install it in a white-box computer and have it work? WIthout any evidence on the website to the contrary, I just assumed the drive came with a windows driver for setting the key, and that a special motherboard with a tpm circuit was required for the driver to work. If that isn't the case, it makes the drives much more attractive. Are there instructions somewhere on the net? This would be of interest to us for both Windows and Linux. My understanding is that the command set for the FDE is not available without signing an NDA. I do not know of any open source implementations. I would love to hear something to the contrary.
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