Re: [Veritas-bu] Off-Topic Question

Jonathan,

What you want is Hardware Encryption. Software Encryption will hit you really HARD in your backup performance. We tested all this via software and LTO-3 tape drives and went from 60MB per second per tape drive to 6MB per second per tape drive. The other thing to remember and work on is the Encryption key management piece of it. Encrypted backups are great until you need to do a restore and you can’t because the Encryption Key is missing. J

Thank You,

Dennis Peacock

EBCA

Acxiom Corporation

501-342-6232 (office)

From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Martin, Jonathan
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 8:28 AM
To: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Off-Topic Question

I'm by no means a Linux / Unix guru but I think several of you are, so I thought I'd ask the forum. Are any of you guys out there using file level encryption on Xnix boxes? I'm looking at strategies for protecting intellectual property and one problem that is very difficult to get around is theft of the property by someone who is authorized to use it. Microsoft has a product that does something like

file is encrypted --> you request read of file --> server contacts license server to make sure you have security access to key --> key is passed and file unencrypted --> you open file

If anyone is aware of anything similar for Unix / Linux I'm all ears.

Thanks,

-Jonathan

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