A previous post announced the list of vendors and resellers that were approved by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, Department of Defense, and General Services Administration for the so-called Data At Rest (DAR) encryption initiative.
As a result of that initiative, a Blanket Purchase Agreement has been set up under the GSA SmartBUY program, and all U.S. Federal, State and local government departments and agencies are eligible to purchase off that contract at most-favorable rates. Those provisions also extend to NATO countries and Foreign Military Sales. The SPYRUS Talisman/DS suit of security products was selected for this program. The suite includes the SecureDoc full Disk Encryption product from our technology partner WinMagic. In addition, the SPYRUS Hydra PC, now called the Hydra PC Enterprise Edition, was the ONLY hardware encryption device that was approved under that program. The Hydra PC includes features a removable/replaceable miniSD memory card, and supports the SDHC format. Up to 4 GB cards are widely available today, and higher capacity cards are currently being sampled. In addition to storing encrypted data on the flash memory, the Hydra PC can also be used in "loop-back" mode, and the encrypted data can be stored on the hard drive, on a network drive, or written to a CD/DVD. Secure File Sharing is supported, so that a file can be encrypted in the public key of multiple recipients, and decrypted anywhere. Files are compressed and then encrypted and sealed, meaning that the plaintext is hashed, the ciphertext is also hashed, and both hashes are then digitally signed with ECDSA. This provides nonrepudiation of origin, and prevents possible ciphertext modification attacks The algorithms and keys lengths used are AES-256, Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman and ECDSA with P-384, and SHA-384. For the ultimate security, we recommend using the SecureDoc disk encryption package for Data at Rest protection of even the various hard to find files against the possibility of a stolen laptop, plus the Hydra PC for Data in Transit protection. See www.spyrus.com <http://www.spyrus.com/> for further information. A nice review by SC Magazine is can be downloaded from that page. Bob
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