On Jul 24, 2008, at 3:33 PM, A Darren Dunham wrote:

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 12:18:01PM -0400, Clark, Patti wrote:

1 - FC attached library (Quantum i500) with 3 LTO-4 drives (IBM) - at
least 2 drives will have encryption enabled.
Software to perform encryption key management

Well, that bullet point is where all my questions would be.  I've no

problem with doing the encryption on the drive, but exactly how the keys

are managed will usually be the important pieces.

Who has access, what are the access methods, how do you get keys where
you need them, how do avoid loss of keys, etc...

Can I ask what the important factors were in deciding against appliances

for you?  I too like the apparent convenience of encrypting at the

drive, but I'm uncertain how to do the key management at this point. I

think that's one of the stronger areas of the appliances.

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