Re: [Thinkpad] Thinkpad Hard Drive Passwords

One interesting software encryption package that might be of use to you is
BestCrypt by Jetico (http://www.jetico.com/). The software, once logged in,
opens a file which is seen by Windows as an ordinary disk drive. The
difference is that the drive is actually encrypted. Any software that can
read/write to a standard Windows hard drive can write to the BestCrypt
emulated drive. If you cannot login properly, the file still remains but is
encrypted and not of much use.

The software is well documented, not very expensive and seems to work well.

At 03:27 PM 2/1/2004, Greg Langham wrote:
>Hi all,
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>Our IT shop supports a financial instituion where Gramm-Leach-Bliley (the
>"Privacy Act") is of importance. The bank examiners are tellling the bank
>that notebook computers need to be protected in the event of theft, loss, etc.
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>Beyond implementing the normal things (such as power on passwords, OS best
>practices, etc.) the examiners want notebook drives encrypted. Their
>concern is that a drive from one machine could be moved to another machine
>and read. When we mentioned hard disk passwords, they wanted more
>information regarding the implementation.
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>I know the Thinkpad hard disk password "follows" the drive. We have tested
>the disk password is "user+master" mode it and it works great.
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>Still, I would like to hear everyone's opinion on whether this is an
>adequate security measure for protecting the hard drive data (rather than
>encrypting it.) If there are work-arounds to the password, I would like to
>know that they exist, though I really don't want to how to do it. I would
>also be interested in other thoughts you might have on the subject.
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>Thanks,
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>Greg
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Received on Mon Feb 2 00:53:57 2004