On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 04:07:25PM -0500, Greg Stark wrote: > By contrast, encryption is useful for non-live data such as database backups. > This lets you take them off-site and store them someplace without worrying > about someone walking off with your entire database. Or to discard the tapes > without worrying about someone reading your old data from the discarded tapes. > (Assuming of course that you don't write the key on the label...)
Actually, hard disk encryption is useful for one thing: so if somebody kills the power and takes the hard disk/computer, the data is safe. While it's running it's vulnerable though... -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a > tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone > else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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