G'day, I've seen this and/or related topics crop up from time to time. If anyone is working on a project to achieve this, it looks like Seagate may have a solution - a new range of disks that operates with hardware based encryption at the controller/disk level.
Not sure when these will start hitting the streets (I'm guessing notebook & PC based systems first). From the description I read, a small update to BIOS asks for passwords/keys to the disk at boot time, which are then loaded into base controller registers. If the password means that you decode an operating system from the disk, then system starts .... If not, then nothing happens. Seems like a "neat" solution to me - full hardware based data encryption of the database (and everything else on the drive) without having to write a single line of code! and with NO performance implications as encrypt/decrypt works at wire speed for data going from/to disk Looks like the major motivator was for data that goes AWOL when a notebook is lost (stolen), but to me it seems like an easy "tick" for one SOX BOX at least :-) Details are probably on Seagate site - I received a physical hard copy update HTH someone Ross Ferris Stamina Software Visage > Better by Design! ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
