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duffman984

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Encrypting a Solid State HDD

« on: January 14, 2009, 08:13:49 AM »

My company is looking at getting the new Dell E when it comes out for our remote users. They E comes with a 16Gb Solid State HDD. We have a standard here that all laptops be fully encrypted with Pointsec. Has anyone had any experience encrypting a SSHDD?


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geekyone

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Re: Encrypting a Solid State HDD

« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2009, 04:14:51 PM »

We've been running Pointsec Media Encryption and so far we haven't had any problems with our solid state usb drives.


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Re: Encrypting a Solid State HDD

« Reply #2 on: January 14, 2009, 08:27:39 PM »

I wouldn't think there would be much of a difference between the solid state disk and a regular disk for purposes of encryption.


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Chan

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Re: Encrypting a Solid State HDD

« Reply #3 on: January 15, 2009, 01:20:21 PM »

Out of interest, can anyone tell me if disk encryption ends up requiring more writes to disk?


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Re: Encrypting a Solid State HDD

« Reply #4 on: January 15, 2009, 04:48:03 PM »

According to the CTO of the PGP corporation, no

http://paulstamatiou.com/2008/11/03/pgp-disk-encryption-safe-for-solid-state-drives

but there is an interesting comment further down about wear leveling. I would call it a definite maybe.


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duffman984

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Re: Encrypting a Solid State HDD

« Reply #5 on: January 16, 2009, 11:15:40 AM »

The wear leveling info is interesting. That was a good read and I'll have to look into the specs on the SDD. I have an email out to Pointsec now seeing if Pointsec for PC is stable on SDDs


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Re: Encrypting a Solid State HDD

« Reply #6 on: January 16, 2009, 12:01:04 PM »

I'm curious, let us know what they say.


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duffman984

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Re: Encrypting a Solid State HDD

« Reply #7 on: January 19, 2009, 11:07:24 AM »

Well I got my response from Checkpoint Software and according to them their Full Disk Encryption, Pointsec for PC, is not dependent on the hardware but the file system itself. They are telling me that it should not matter but it doesn't sound like they've ever had this kind of question before so I'll have to give you guys a definite once I try it out for myself.