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On Monday 25 April 2005 1:45 pm, Kent Borg wrote: > That does bring up another reason for encrypting data: To maybe make > it possible to do warranty returns on dead disks that were used to > store sensitive data. There should be a certain amount of trust involved. A vendor _SHOULD_ either destroy the platters or bulk erase them. I would doubt that a vendor would take the time to extract the data as data recovery is labor intensive. > And you make a good point: Neither encrypted data nor keys have to be > military quality to be useful. No more than the locks on my house > have to be Fort Knox-quality to be useful. This is very true. The level of encryption depends on the value of the data to you or someone else. If I were a company executive carrying a laptop, I would certainly make sure the data including email was encrypted. But, the bottom line is the value of the data. I don't encrypt anything on my laptop because the only things I keep on it is stuff for my teaching. -- Jerry Feldman <gerald.feldman at hp.com> Partner Technology Access Center (contractor) (PTAC-MA) Hewlett-Packard Co. 550 King Street LKG2a-X2 Littleton, Ma. 01460 (978)506-5243
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