Seagate recently announced a 1TB drive for desktop systems and a 250GB laptop drive. What's of interest is that it appears to use a system called DriveTrust for Full Disk Encryption. It's apparently AES-128.
The detail lacking press release is here: http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=seagate-unveils-new-giants&vgnextoid=6bb0e0e1f0494110VgnVCM100000f5ee0a0aRCRD The relevant excerpt of it appears to be: "The Barracuda FDE (full disc encryption) hard drive is the world’s first 3.5-inch desktop PC drive with native encryption to prevent unauthorized access to data on lost or stolen hard drives or systems. Using AES encryption, a government-grade security protocol and the strongest that is commercially available, The Barracuda FDE hard drive delivers endpoint security for powered-down systems. Logging back on requires a pre-boot user password that can be buttressed with other layers of authentication such as smart cards and biometrics." I found this somewhat relevant paper (though it seriously lacks important details) on DriveTrust: http://www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/whitepaper/TP564_DriveTrust_Oct06.pdf Has anyone read relevant details for this system? It seems like something quite useful but I'm not sure that I trust something I can't review... -jacob --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
