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: Mike Jackson <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 14:01:03 -0500
On Jan 9, 2008, at 1:53 PM, Timothy J. Miller wrote:
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
Reading the article seems to indicate that all the authentication is
performed ON THE drive itself and is therefor OS agnostic. Just
wandering what happens when you remove your smart card.
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ST Electronics is showing off a new drive case at CES, the DigiSAFE
DiskCrypt Mobile DCM200, that's been touted as the world's first USB
2.0 external enclosure with smartcard protection. The drive offers "2-
Factor" protection, requiring users to insert a smartcard and then
enter a PIN before they can get at the hardware-encrypted data. Since
everything is done by the hardware of the enclosure, the DCM200 is
completely OS-independent and requires zero software installation on
the host machine. The units will start shipping March 2008 for about
$999.
#-------- End Article Quote -------------
--
Mike Jackson Senior Research Engineer
Innovative Management & Technology Services
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