Re: [Fed-Talk] Whole disk encryption for the Mac.
Re: [Fed-Talk] Whole disk encryption for the Mac.
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Whole disk encryption for the Mac.
- From: "Timothy J. Miller" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 12:53:32 -0600
On Jan 9, 2008, at 10:50 AM, Mike Jackson wrote:
Funny.. I was just going to post a follow up to another thread
about this:
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/st-electronics-debuts-digisafe-
dcm200-smartcard-protected-hdd-en/
I would hope that if you can get power to the drive FIRST before
booting the mac, you could insert your smart card, authenticate,
then have the Mac boot from the encrypted drive.
Booting from USB isn't officially supported and probably won't be
until the PowerPC support is dropped. However, on Intel Macs it
works so long as the drive is partitioned correctly and has an Intel
version of OS X installed.
So you *may* be able to power on with Option pressed, authN to the
drive, and then select it and boot. However I won't know for certain
until I can get my grubby little hands on one (and I will, or rather,
the people I work for very likely will :).
-- Tim
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