Re: Seeking Encryption Software Referals

From: Brian Maratikos (test_at_)
Date: 02/26/05 

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 20:23:53 -0600

Lassi Hippeläinen <lahippel@ieee.orgies.invalid> wrotf:

>Paul Rubin kirjoitti:
>> test <test@> writes:
>>
>>>I am not satisfied with virtual drives, or file and folder based
>>>encryption. I want the full hard drive (minus perhaps the boot
>>>sector) to be encrypted, including temp files, the swap file, and free
>>>space... I am currently using Windows ME. I would like something that is
>>>compatible with my current OS, but will consider upgrading if it is
>>>the only option.
>>
>>
>> Some Dutch guys looked into that and decided there really was no way
>> to do it for Windows. <...>
>
>Utimaco SafeGuard Easy:
>http://www.utimaco.com/createframes.html?http://www.utimaco.com/content_products/sg_easy.html
>
>Pointsec:
>http://www.pointsec.com/products/products_pointsec.asp
>
>My employer used SGE but changed to Pointsec. I think they wanted the
>support for Aladdin eToken.
>
>-- Lassi

Thanks Lassi,

I have checked out Utimaco's offering previously and it seemed roughly
comparable to PC Guardian's software. I visited the PointSec website,
but the info seems rather sparse. The EAL4 is impressive though the
lost key recovery option seems like a major security hole. What has
your use of both of these products been like? How fast is the "on the
fly" decryption? Significant performance hit? Has it caused any
problems or system instability or incompatibilities with other
software?

Brian