Hardware-based full disk encryption: Difference between revisions

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Hardware-based Full Disk Encryption is being pursued by a number of vendors including [[Intel]], [[Seagate]], and [[Hitachi]] with the rest of the hard drive industry following. Encryption and the symetricsymmetric encryption key is maintained independantlyindependently from the [[Central processing unit|CPU]], thus removing computer memory as a potential attack vector. There are current two varieties of hardware-FDE being discussed:

1) #Hard Disk Drive FDE<br />

2) Chip Set#Chipset FDE

==Hard Disk Drive FDE==

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Currently there are only two software solutions for [[Pre-Boot Authentication]] available from [[Secude]]<ref>http://secude.com/</ref> and [[Wave Systems]].

==Chip SetChipset FDE==

Intel has announced the release of the Danbury chipchipset<ref>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/21/intel_vpro_danbury/</ref> set series which promises [[Fullfull Diskdisk Encryptionencryption]] and a [[TPMTrusted Platform Module]] (TPM) in the south bridge. However, as the chip setchipset is not yet releasereleased and will not be broadly available until 2009, extensive research is not yet available.

==See also==

*[[Disk encryption hardware]]

*[[Disk encryption software]]

==References==

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