On 2015/01/23 15:34, Daniel Feenberg wrote:
On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, John Orthoefer wrote:
I’ve been getting OPAL Self encrypting drives. Since we support so
many OSes finding a solution that works for everything has been hard.
But OPAL on any standard PC hardware should just work.
Can you say something about how the self-encrypted system appears to
users? When do they enter the password? What software asks for the
password? Is it an alternate boot loader? You mention that any standard
PC hardware should work, but sometimes I have seen it said that the BIOS
must support encryption - is that false or an alternative arrangement?
How is the password established? Is there a Windows program that one
runs to turn on encryption and establish the key? Is there a similar
Linux program? Can a drive move from Windows to Linux without losing the
data?
The vendor literature is long on the benefits, but short description.
Halleluja, brother, amen!
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