CoukieHard Drive Technology
April 26th 2006 12:34
Seagate has put itself at the vanguard of the information security technology for the massive notebook market, launching its Momentus Full Disk Encryption Hard Drive. This new technology brings a new level of security for those that have sensitive information in their notebooks, the technology will be available now within a limited launch, and despite that it doesn’t allow the user to turn off the encryption function the company doesn’t believe that the users of notebooks object to have new levels of security. Companies and the government are the principal targets for this new product since the high degree of sensitive information that they handle.
Quoting Joni Clark, FDE Product Marketing Manager in the interview with Daily tech:
As a user's system writes data to the disk it will be encrypted with a 192-bit TDEA or 3DES encryption algorithm. The algorithm involves using three 64-bit keys to do an encrypt-decrypt-encrypt function with the keys in that order.
The only recommendation, don’t lose the keys; the information will become useless if you do. Not even a cryptologist would be able to save the data, for now of course.
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