Ok … then things have changed since I was working on the initial trusted and FDE drives 8 years ago. My apologies if I misdirected things.
Gary Little H (952) 223-1349 C (952) 454-4629 [email protected] On Mar 23, 2012, at 3:30 PM, Sam Kuper wrote: > On 23 March 2012 19:43, Gary Little <[email protected]> wrote: >> They are hard drives. Plug them into any SAS or SATA controller and they >> will be look like any hard drive, work like any hard drive, and will be >> recognized by any BIOS or EFI that I know of, until you configure them to >> enable FDE, which is supported by both T10 and T13 committees. Even as a >> configured FDE they will appear but require authentication, very likely >> using a TPM on the CPU motherboard for key and certificate storage. > > Seagate seems to believe otherwise. From the link I provided: "Newer > Mac systems use the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) in lieu of a > BIOS. The traditional ATA Security set passwords are system managed > and depend on BIOS which means that the newer Apple notebook systems > cannot set or use traditional ATA Security passwords. The Seagate > Secure passwords are managed by client software." > > Apologies if I've misunderstood. > >> What do you mean by "FOSS firmware"? To my knowledge when you hit the power >> switch on a computer the first thing that starts is what we have called the >> BIOS for at least 20 years and today includes EFI. That's part of the >> motherboard and to me really has nothing to do with FOSS, or any kind of >> free open source software. As far as the hard drive itself, that firmware is >> written by the manufacturer and typically tailored or even totally >> re-written for every model of hard drive in their inventory. > > I mean the algorithm that gets a key from the user, caches it, and > uses it to perform encryption/decryption on writes/reads to the > storage space on the drive. Since I understood that algorithm to be > being executed on the drive in the case of Seagate/Hitachi FDE drives, > "firmware" seemed the right term. > >> So, given FOSS does not work with a given hard drive, my first thought would >> be to wonder what's wrong with the FOSS. > > I'm afraid I don't understand this statement. > > Thanks, > > Sam > _______________________________________________ > macports-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
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