In early days of data storage, there was on-the-fly software compression.
These products would compress and uncompress" data realtime in order
to save disk space. This was a good idea, however, these products no
longer exists today because hard drives became larger and cheaper. I'm
poiting this out because I think it will ultimately come down to cost.
If self-encrypting drives become cheap enough, I can not see a compelling
reason for implementing a software based encryption when the encryption is
already there in the drive.
Also software based encryption relies on the OS being healthy and stable,
whereas, hardware based encryption is totally transparent to the OS or to
any application installed on the OS.
scott
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, mgie...@pgp.com wrote:
The Strange Rise and Fall of Hardware Disk Encryption
http://blog.pgp.com/index.php/2009/04/the-strange-rise-and-fall-of-...
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