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Date:	Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:55:51 -0700
From:	"Jon Harrison" <jharrison@seadog.reno.nv.us >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	< "scoug-help@scoug.com" > scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: ecryption, thumb drives and ecomstation

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On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:49:35 -0700, Mark Abramowitz wrote:

>I think I've seen
>thumb drives out there that support encryption. Is this normally some
>software on the drive? Is it a hardware thing? Will eCS support it? How?
>Needless to say, we don't do Win here.

I have a lexar thumb drive. It's several years old. It came with Windows software that encrypted
data. So to answer your question, it's software supported. I never tried to run that software,
assuming it wouldn't work in os/2, I just repartitioned & reformatted it for my needs.

FWIW, the hard drive (seagate) in my laptop supports hardware encryption. It takes it's settings
from the bios. I don't know if it only encrypts/decrypts at startup/shutdown or if it's on the
fly. I suspect it's only at startup/shutdown. I also don't know if it encrypts the whole drive or
just the MBR or some selected parts of the drive to render it inoperable. The purpose is to keep a
thief from accessing the HD unless they have the bios password. The vendor sez if you lose the
password you are out of luck, you can reformat. So this system apparently works under os/2. The
only way I could check is to remove the drive and try it in another system and perhaps use DFSee to
read the disk.

I guess my point is that perhaps in the not to distant future there might be a hardware solution
for thumbdrives.

Jon

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