On Sat, 24 Jan 2015, Edward Ned Harvey (bblisa4) wrote:
From: bblisa [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel
Feenberg
Can you say something about how the self-encrypted system appears to
users?
The self-encrypting drives I've used have been like this:
BIOS has support for self-encrypting drives. When you power on the
computer, you get a text prompt to enter password. No need to re-enter
when waking from sleep. (Yes need to re-enter when waking from
hibernate.) Sometimes they support an Admin password and a User
password.
So I need encryption support in the motherboard firmware? I haven't seen
that advertised anywhere, nor have I seen it documented in any MB manual I
have seen, so I guess the feature is very unusual. In fact, a search on
Newegg for "sed" turns up no systems or motherboards. Weird.
dan feenberg
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