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1/27/2009
Posted by Matt C

Encrypted Drive Standard

Although I applaud the effort and think it's a good thing, this article makes me wonder if our job is going to get a lot harder in the next few years.

The world's six largest computer drive makers today published the final specifications(download PDF) for a single, full-disk encryption standard that can be used across all hard disk drives, solid state drives (SSD) and encryption key management applications. Once enabled, any disk that uses the specification will be locked without a password -- and the password will be needed even before a computer boots.

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