On Dec 2, 2007, at 4:30 AM, Timothy Sipples wrote:
In fairness, the DS6000 is physically relatively small, although I
wouldn't
want to carry one by myself on my bicycle. The spindles (individual
drives) are even smaller, but you'd need a number of them to have a
RAID
set and the complete data. Tough but not impossible.
I think the IT marketplace is in for a shock when people figure out
that
losing the keys means losing the data. It isn't like a bank vault
where
you can hire a locksmith to drill some holes over several days.
It's so
critical to store and manage the encryption keys in a safe, secure,
recoverable repository.
Timothy,
Maybe theft would be one threat but destruction of the keys disk file
(poor description I am sure) would accomplish the same thing. Say
exposure to EMC pulse (the type that occurs after a nuclear bomb)
would be enough ? The threat of an explosion is almost as bad as the
real occurrence, hold you up for nuclear black mail.
Please lets us know that the DS6000 is capable of remote mirroring
and that it can indeed be done.
Ed
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