On 31 Aug 2006 08:28:04 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Altmark) wrote:
They drives encrypt/decrypt data *in the drive itself tape
speed*. The performance penalty of host-based encryption
is no longer necessary. ICSF on z/OS can even act as the
encrypted key store for the drive!
Learn more at
http://www.ibm.com/servers/storage/enewscast/data_encryption/
The one thing I wanted to learn wasn't there (or at
the "learn more" site pointe from the site. Did the
designers do the right thing and compress *before*
encryption? That increases tape capacity; just as
important important, it makes cryptanalysis more difficult
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