Love it when email passes in the night... BitLocker is available only with the "corporate" versions of Windows, including (I think) Windows 7 Enterprise. There may be functionality that you don't need in Enterprise that you'd have to pay for anyway (and I had a great time trying to get Microsoft to admit there's no real way to upgrade from Professional to Ultimate - which is basically the same as Enterprise).
My picking at this about a year ago led me to my opinion that it's complicated to deploy. Great if you have the scale and the infrastructure, which I didn't. But - if you do, you can integrate it, meaning that it's managed and deployed automatically, and can be fully controlled by your management system. TrueCrypt is very good for end-users who have been trained to use it. I don't, however, have any experience using Whole Disk Encryption (I think they call it System Encryption/pre boot authentication). BitLocker requires hardware support (the Trusted Platform Module). PGP supports the Mac and Linux for their Whole Disk product. On 21Aug10, at 19:35 , Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > Any wisdom comparing BitLocker versus TrueCrypt? > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Edward Ned Harvey > Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2010 1:08 PM > To: 'Back Bay LISA' > Subject: [BBLISA] whole disk encryption > > Presently, I have Mac and Windows laptop users. The mac users use encrypted > sparsebundles, and the windows users use TrueCrypt for encryption. There are > a lot of reasons whole disk encryption would be desirable - mostly in terms > of backups. > > There are a lot of whole disk encryption solutions out there. I can simply > stab into the dark and start trying them ... But I thought perhaps I could > benefit from experiences that have been had already... > > Anybody care to offer their experiences? > _______________________________________________ > bblisa mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
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