On Sat, 15 Dec 2012 02:40:06 -0800, Ron Hawkins wrote: ... > >The second thing that has changed is that encryption has superseded secure >erasure as an acceptable method to secure data on a HDD or SSD once the >drive leaves the data center. There has been some change in physics, such >that relatively cheap ASICs can be installed in the disk array back ends to >process the AES256 cipher without any impact to performance, and I'd suggest >that this followed adoption AES256 relatively quickly. Using encryption from >initial install prevents clear text from being left in remapped sectors and >tracks. >
I hope the implementation of encryption in enterprise class storage is better than in consumer devices: http://h-online.com/-895308 http://h-online.com/-746215 http://h-online.com/-746199 http://h-online.com/-746225 ... Norbert Friemel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
