I'm concerned about a user leaving the id and password on paper in or near
the laptop.
There is no way one can defend against a user who decides to stick a sticky
pad on his laptop and leaves his password there. The best encryption tool
does not defend against human stupidity.
Alex
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From: "Saqib Ali" <docbook.xml@gmail.com>
To: "Brown, Sam" <sbrown@ashe.ucla.edu>; <mario@netway.com.cy>;
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Cc: <security-basics@securityfocus.com>
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 1:26 AM
Subject: Re: Security procedure question
If you don't mind, can I ask what product you selected? There are some
full/whole disc encryption implementations that support TPM. See the
URL for description:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FDE#Full_disk_encryption_and_Trusted_Platform_Module
If your laptops are TPM enabled the full disc encryption software can
wrap the decryption key with TPM, so the user won't have to remember
or note down an extra username/password.
On 9/20/06, Brown, Sam <sbrown@ashe.ucla.edu> wrote:
We're going to be deploying whole disk encryption to our laptops so I am
interested in hearing how others have distributed the software
encryption ID's and passwords to users. I'm concerned about a user
leaving the id and password on paper in or near the laptop.
Sam Brown
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