[FDE] BitLocker feedback?

[Yoram Shacham]

Saqib,

I tend to agree with most of your insights, however I'm not sure the
Momentus will be shipped with most of new computers. Note that the Momentus
family is priced at about 100$ above same none encrypted HDDs.

Regards,
Yoram

On 2/1/07, Saqib Ali <docbook.xml at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Here is what Gartner has to say about BitLocker:
> http://vista.blog.gartner.com/blog/index.php?itemid=1875
>
> My thoughts:
> I highly doubt that BitLocker will ever be widely implemented
> anywhere. It will be like EFS which even Microsoft's security group
> doesn't use (they use Winzip AES). Here are my reasons for the above
> statement:
>
> 1) BitLocker is only supported on Windows Vista Ultimate. Ultimate
> edition is pricey and will not be used by most businesses.
> 2) Vista requires latest and greatest hardware, which is not the case
> at most of the shops.
> 3) There exists plethora of alternative, which are cheap, support
> multiple platforms/OS and works well with the existing older hardware.
> 4) New computers will start shipping with Seagate's Momentus FDE.2 HDD
> which has a hardware chip that performs the encryption, thus relieving
> the CPU.
>
> http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/laptops/momentus/momentus_5400_fde.2/
>
>
> On 1/29/07, Sable Cantus <jcantus at exchange.calstatela.edu> wrote:
> > Have any of you implemented bitlocker in your test or IT
> > environments?  I began last week and it seems that there are plenty
> > of MS paperwork about the importance of FDE, etc. but not a lot of
> > details about the technology or how it stacks up with other
> > encryption technologies.  Specifically: PGP and Utimaco.
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