"I asked the original question only because I had heard that crypto-DASD was coming next (after the tape hardware encryption, which is obviously already in the field). I haven't been able to find any information on the crypto-DASD topic, so I just thought I'd see what the list had heard. Just fishing."
Of course, if you are under any kind of NDA or CDA, I don't want to hear from you. ;-) Thanks! Scott Scott T. Harder Tech Support & Product Development ASPG, Inc. Ph: 239-649-1548 / Ext. 203 Fax: 239-649-6391 General Support Email: [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 12:58 PM To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Cc: Scott T. Harder Subject: Re: Crypto-DASD? I haven't heard anything about this new dasd, but I have a question. Why would you want everything encrypted? If you have a dasd box in your datacenter, what is the reason to encrypt all your data? I can see that maybe for mirroring where the data gets sent long distances over communication lines, but why would the average datacenter need this? Eric -- Eric Bielefeld Systems Programmer Washington University St Louis, Missouri 314-935-3418 ---- "Scott T. Harder" <[email protected]> wrote: > Just curious if anyone has heard anything about new DASD coming out any > time soon (or not so soon) that will have encryption built in, where > anything written to a volume on a unit supporting this would > automatically get encrypted; and decrypted when read, of course. > > > > Thanks! > > Scott > > > > Scott T. Harder > > Tech Support & Product Development > > ASPG, Inc. > > Ph: 239-649-1548 / Ext. 203 > > Fax: 239-649-6391 > > General Support Email: [email protected] > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
