Re: [Fed-Talk] Whole Disk Encryption?
Re: [Fed-Talk] Whole Disk Encryption?
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Whole Disk Encryption?
- From: "Wm. Cerniuk" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:17:31 -0600
We have been very fortunate with PGP and OS revisions and hardware
revisions. The only problem so far has been Snow Leopard which fixed
several issues with the OS X disk structure. This of course changed
the game for all whole disk encryption products on Mac OS X, PGP
included.
PGP corp provided a beta early in Snow Leopard's release cycle and it
was largely solid; a single significant problem was evident
(encryption of external high performance FireWire drives) and was
squashed.
One thing that I have been impressed with is PGP's compatiblity which
comes as no surprise. They adhere to the development guidelines and
are among the oldest developers on the Mac platform. Experience,
dicipline and very good design has been what keeps me personally a PGP
customer (from 1.0 in the early 90's )
V/R,
Wm. Cerniuk
703.594.7616
(Sent faster from my iPhone 3Gs)
On Jan 21, 2010, at 7:46 AM, "Nichols, Jared - 1160 - MITLL" <email@hidden
> wrote:
We use SecureDoc and it works pretty well. The only issue, which is
I think
inherent of all full disk encryption products, is that when
something goes
wrong, it only goes wrong very badly.
We work very closely with SecureDoc and making sure that the latest
Apple
hardware and OS is supported by their product. (The first Unibody
MBP threw
them for a loop with the new grphics card.) The only hangup is that
when
there's a new OS point release, if the SecureDoc product doesn't yet
support
it and the user updates their machines, they'll brick it.
I know, big problem.
We get around this by putting machines with SecureDoc in a separate
upgrade
cycle so that they do not get forced OS updates. We pay much more
attention
to these machines to ensure that the updated SecureDoc that supports
the new
point release is pushed to machines first, and then we'll enable the
updated
OS for them.
One major down-side is that if you're going from say 10.5 to 10.6,
you need
to do a full decrypt, upgrade to 10.6, then a full re-encrypt. Long
process.
j
On 1/20/10 8:24 PM, "Robert Nicholson" <email@hidden>
wrote:
Is there any opinion on experiences from SecureDoc WDE and PGP WDE?
PGP WDE
has 10.x which now supports Snow Leopard but SecureDoc already
supports Snow
Leopard. PGP WDE seems to be considerably easier to buy than
SecureDoc from
what I can tell and I like that PGP has a support forum that's
active. I've
seen PGP WDE work reliably in Leopard but have no experience with
it in Snow
Leopard. Has anybody been able to find out how much SecureDoc for
Snow Leopard
actually costs? Personally I hate the whole reseller model it's so
out of
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