Oh Ed, wrong again like so often. With encryption you MUST have an encryption key. I know you would feel safer having written on a piece of paper you carry with you in your wallet. But to most modern data centers, writing encryption keys or passwords on pieces of paper that are hand-carried to the vault are to be kept to a minimum. What happens when that sticky note gets lost? Oh yes, all the tapes are un-usable.
And you are wrong on the case of CA-1 as well (what else is new). To activate CA-1, all you need to reply is "U". The only time you need a "password" for CA-1 is when you want to make it INACTIVE (remove it). We make it easy to activate; make it harder to remove to make sure it is not removed by accident. I know you hate CA Ed, and that is your choice. But don't try to pass along "I heard from a friend that heard from someone else that heard from someone that someone else...." as anything but bs. Russell Witt CA-1 Level-2 Support Manager -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 6:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Virtual tape limits (Was: OEM software electronic download report card) On May 17, 2007, at 6:18 AM, Russell Witt wrote: > Oh come on Ed, > > How many thousands of sites trust CA-1 and TLMS to protect their > tape datasets? And you do NOT hear any "oops, I lost my backup" > stories from them, do you. Ahhh but the tapes aren't encrypted with those products they are still readable anywhere. But with encrypted tapes the data is essentially gone until the proper key is supplied. And if I am not to far wrong the encryption is essentially unbreakable. So the critical data that was encrypted is (or could be) any data that is deemed critical. Like I said I sure wouldn't trust anything critical to any CA product. I know its just my opinion but I will just sit back and wait until a corporation can't get at its data. Ed ps: I have heard of a case where CA-1 would not initialize because of a password issue and the product would not allow tape usage. Granted the outage was a small one (about 1 hour) but it still happened (at least as it was told to me). I would be hard pressed for *ANY* product (probably even IBM to do encrypting. Hardware doing it would/ could be still an issue, I am still up in the air about. While I did point out CA encryption I would probably say the same thing about anyones encryption process. Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
