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Re: Is data encrypted in storage pools?

1998-12-18 04:01:01
Subject: Re: Is data encrypted in storage pools?
From: Reinhard Mersch <mersch AT UNI-MUENSTER DOT DE>
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 10:01:01 +0100
I would like to "push for" that requirement. How can I do that?

For me, it is not only a data format issue, as Tom Kauffman suggested.
We have got user groups living behind a fire wall, who feel quite 
comfortable regarding the security of their un-encrypted data, but they
hesitate to give that data to us. One of these user groups will soon
have their own ADSM server (behind their fire wall), and they plan to
exchange data with our ADSM server via server-to-server communication;
the same problem arises here.

We _definitely_need_ the ADSM client's ability to encrypt data. And the
ADSM server, in it's role as a ADSM client via server-to-server comm., 
should also be able to do that.

Hough, Peter writes:
 > This is a requirement of ADSM that I have had for some time. Other
 > backup products already have it.
 > I was told that it would make it into the product if enough people
 > expressed an interest. IBM did create special V2 clients for Windows
 > and Netware that included encryption, so they know how big/small a job
 > it is.
 > I suggest that anyone who is interested in having data encryption
 > should push for it to be included in the product as soon as possible.
 > 
 > Peter Hough
 > Guardian DR
 > 
 > ----------
 > From:  Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,FC-SIL/INF.[SMTP:Rene.Lambelet AT NESTLE DOT COM]
 > Sent:  Thursday, December 17, 1998 4:04 PM
 > To:  ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
 > Subject:  Is data encrypted in storage pools?
 > 
 > Hello,
 > 
 > my boss gets very concerned about data security and the backups.
 > Can anybody tell me if the adsm backups are encrypted or not when
 > written
 > onto tapes? We all know that compression is not secure enough.
 > In other words, if somebody gets a cartridge containing backed-up
 > files
 > (storage pool), will he be able to read the data using a dump
 > programm?
 > 
 > If not encrypted, are there any plan to do it?
 > 
 > Thanks a lot,
 > 
 > Rene Lambelet
 > Nestec SA - 55, Av. Nestle - CH-1800 Vevey
 > Tel: ++41'21'924'35'43 / Fax: ++41'21'924'45'89
 > E-Mail: rene.lambelet AT nestle DOT com
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