Re: When to encrypt

On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 04:07:25PM -0500, Greg Stark wrote:
> By contrast, encryption is useful for non-live data such as database backups.
> This lets you take them off-site and store them someplace without worrying
> about someone walking off with your entire database. Or to discard the tapes
> without worrying about someone reading your old data from the discarded tapes.
> (Assuming of course that you don't write the key on the label...)

Actually, hard disk encryption is useful for one thing: so if somebody
kills the power and takes the hard disk/computer, the data is safe.
While it's running it's vulnerable though...
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