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Posted by Michael Schmidt on May 12, 2004, 9:21 am
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> Hello,
>
> I am looking for some solution that would allow to protect the
> contents of an ordinary HDD from prying eyes, yet would allow easy
> access to a person who knows login/password (or password alone). The
> way I imagine it, is that upont boot I am asked to key in a password,
> that is used by POST to connect to HDD, that, pehaps has some upgrared
> firmware. I am not very knowledgable in HDD firmware techs, nor POST
> coding, so I don't have idea wether the protection I am describing
> here is possible, and if it is, then how that could be reached. The
> purpose is to make ordinary HDD not accessible simply by connecting it
> to another PC and looking into its contents, yet the protection should
> not involve any hardware upgrades, ie HDD chip replacement etc.
> Perhaps there is some lower level protection, that is available only
> on windows system - i.e. some folder with heavily encrypted files that
> can be made accessible in Windows by special "virtual removable disk
> driver" that would ask user password upon connection, and only then be
> possible to read/write data to this virtual drive.
>
> Thank you for any hints,
>
> Pavils
Utimaco's 'SafeGuard Easy' offers you full (partition-based) HD
encryption with a password prompt before the OS is booted. It is a
SW-only solution.
Check out their homepage (www.utimaco.com).
Michael
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Michael Schmidt
University of Siegen, Germany
http: www.nue.et-inf.uni-siegen.de/~schmidt/
e-mail: schmidt _at_ nue.et-inf.uni-siegen.de
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