[FDE] Simple question (newbie)

[Steven Lerner-Wright]

In response below: Lack of Challenge/Response password recovery mechanism. This is
very useful in large roll-out of any FDE solution.

I'd submit that any program without a password recovery mechnism is not worth the money -- or lack of money -- you spend for it. Full disk encryption must have administrative password recovery for it to be effective. 

 

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From: fde-bounces at www.xml-dev.com on behalf of Ali, Saqib
Sent: Mon 4/23/2007 9:10 PM
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Subject: Re: [FDE] Simple question (newbie)



> What's the best software out there?  The closest I've found is Compu-sec.  Is
> that any good?

Free or not, Compusec is a excellent product. It has been very stable
for over the last few years. And worked fine on various computers I
had, including SCSI based workstation. The only 2 drawbacks I have
seen with compusec are:
1) Lack of Challenge/Response password recovery mechanism. This is
very useful in large roll-out of any FDE solution. Utimaco and
Pointsec have challenge/response based password recovery.
2) The encryption is limited to 128bit AES. Some institutions mandate
256bit AES.
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