On 23 March 2012 19:44, Daniel J. Luke <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 23, 2012, at 3:35 PM, Sam Kuper wrote: >> Hm, it's not just the firmware that's in question. To use the Seagate >> FDE drives on a Mac, one has to use "Seagate Secure" software, too, >> which is proprietary: >> http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/206011en#4 I haven't >> yet been able to find any helpful information about the Hitachi >> drives, but I suspect they're similar. > > > Several of the 'hardware' solutions have been shown to have pretty serious > flaws in their implementations as well (often easily recoverable keys and/or > universal keys to enable data recovery).
I was under this impression too; thank you for corroborating it. That's why I'd like a FOSS solution that has been thoroughly scrutinised. > This isn't exactly what you asked for, but something like encfs might work > for you... Ah, now that looks very interesting! Would I be right in thinking I could use it to create folders that work like encrypted sparse images? If so, then is is just the sort of thing I was hoping for :) Thanks again, Sam _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
