Re: hardware disk encryption?

From: atom smasher (ngbz_at_fhfcvpvbhf.bet)
Date: 10/16/04 

Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 17:27:07 -0400

Tom St Denis wrote:

> OTPs are moot.
>
> And authentication is a real problem as it's quite often ignored in the
> real world. Ask how many people download and verify signatures of say
> GPG [even if they trust the keys of the GPG team or those who will vouch
> for them, etc...]?
>
> From my past projects the % of downloads of signature files sits around
> 18-20%. I'd bet less than half actually verify the signatures [and not
> just mass-grab the files off the site].
============

thanks for pointing that out.

do you have any thoughts, ideas or comments that relate to the idea of a
hardware disk encryption card?

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