At the recent NetSec show in S.F. a vendor was showing latops (Toshiba and
IBM, I think) fitted with bios-based disk encryption and finger print
authentication.
At 01:09 PM 6/18/00 -0400, Bill Stewart wrote:
>At 12:12 PM 6/13/00 -0400, David Honig wrote:
> >When you read about losing laptops in Los Alamos (and London), you have
> >to wonder: why don't those folks encrypt their drives? They
> >are somehow thinking physical security is sufficient, and slacking
> >off otherwise.
>
>Probably because the standard PC software doesn't come with
>military-quality encryption.
>In large part this is because the Feds have tried to prevent civilians from
>using it,
>and set export policies to discourage it.
>To some extent it may be because publicly available crypto algorithms
>aren't NSA-approved for military use, so there's no COTS code,
>though there may be NSA-built similar products.
> Thanks!
> Bill
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