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Re: [Networker] Encrpyption
2008-01-10 21:41:31
On Jan 10, 2008, at 16:35, lemons_terry AT emc DOT com wrote:
All of these require a supporting environment to provide key
management, drive configuration, etc. For the TS1120 and T10000A
at least, this adds tens of thousands of dollars to the cost of the
drive itself, in my experience.
I'm probably missing something, but why can't Networker do the key
management?
I would think that the logical way to implement encryption for these
tape drives to have a SCSI command where you send a key and say
"enable encryption". The back up software would then keep the key in
its database and tie it to the back up session.
Then, when you want to restore or clone, Networker (or whatever)
would look up the file's save set, get the key, send it to the drive,
and tell it to decrypt the data as it comes off the media.
Does anyone know of any documents or white papers that describes the
architecture of this?
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