[FDE] Inside interview with Seagate on it's new FDE Drive

[Adrian Skerratt]

Saqib

In answer to your questions:

1) No Client Software is required. 

2) What happens is that there is a preboot Authorisation screen which
appears, once you have authorised successfully, the authentication program
reboots the laptop and the user has access to the hard drive as if it were a
normal hard drive, but all the data is encrypted before it is written to the
hard drive. 

The Kernel question is a difficult one to answer. We wrote our own MBR
program which uses PC BIOS calls to bring up the Authentication screen and
accept keyboard input.

If anybody has any other questions, I'll do my best to answer them.

Adrian Skerratt
Senior Support Engineer
Stonewood

-----Original Message-----
From: fde-bounces at www.xml-dev.com [mailto:fde-bounces at www.xml-dev.com] On
Behalf Of Saqib Ali
Sent: 10 January 2007 02:11
To: fde at www.xml-dev.com
Subject: Re: [FDE] Inside interview with Seagate on it's new FDE Drive

> The company I work for have been producing FDE hard drives for the 
> last 5 years http://www.flagstonerange.com/

Adrian,

couple of questions regarding the flagstone FDE HDD:

1) Is a client software required to fully exploit the functions of the
drive? If so, can you please describe the client software briefly?
2) Does this FDE implementation support pre-boot authentication? If so, what
kind of kernelis used for pre-boot?

Thanks
saqib
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