Is it so some hardware vendor to make more money by offering DASD Encryption?  
Sort of like when you buy a new car and they offer to undercoat your car for a 
price?

Lizette

> 
> 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?

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