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Re: Seagate announces hardware FDE for laptop and desktop machines
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Howe)
Sat Sep 15 18:30:17 2007
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 19:36:17 +0100
From: Dave Howe <DaveHowe@gmx.co.uk>
To: "cryptography@metzdowd.com >> Email List - Cryptography" <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.61.0709071607410.19658@mental>
Leichter, Jerry wrote:
> First off, it depends on how the thing is implemented. Since the entire
> drive is apparently encrypted, and you have to enter a password just to
> boot from it, some of the support is in an extended BIOS or some very
> early boot code, which is "below" any OS you might actually have on the
> disk.
If I had to guess, I would suggest they were using the ATA "secure" hd
password api, and really providing security rather than the
firmware-lock usually associated with such passwords. That would allow
you to retrofit it to a lot of laptops which already use that
functionality, in a plug-and-play manner.
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