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

[Yoram Shacham]

Adrian,


   1. What recovery mechanism is available for someone forgetting his
   password (home use and corporate)?
   2. Is there any limitations on BIOS type/version
   3. Is there any limitation on HDD size, speed and type (IDE, SATA,
   SATA2)?

Thanks and regards,
Yoram

On 1/10/07, Adrian Skerratt <askerratt at stonewood.co.uk> wrote:
>
> 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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