begin quoting Tracy R Reed as of Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 03:21:55PM -0800: > Neil Schneider wrote: > >Seagate bakes security into hard drive > > I am generally not in favor of hardware encryption. What if it is found > to be poorly implemented? You have to buy a new hard drive.
Don't you have to replace your hard drive every year or two anyway? And there's no reason you can't *also* run software encryption on top of it. At worst, it offers no protection; at best, it automatically encrypts swap for you. If you were using software encryption, and it turns out the algorithm had a weakness, you'd have to change your encryption mechanism and re-encrypt everything anyway. No significant difference, then, with having the encryption done of the drive. I imagine most folks will opt to put the password in the BIOS so that the computer will boot automatically, thus negating the benefit of the feature, but that's people for you. > It probably > requires some special drivers which we will not get for Linux or will > get only binaries. With an attitude like that, they probably won't see Linux users as a desired demographic. Okay, this is odd. Why am I not the disillusioned and cynical one here? -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
