[BBLISA] Looking for FDE single system windows 8

[Jim Hickstein]

On 2015/01/23 15:34, Daniel Feenberg wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, John Orthoefer wrote:
>
>> I’ve been getting OPAL Self encrypting drives.  Since we support so
>> many OSes finding a solution that works for everything has been hard.
>> But OPAL on any standard PC hardware should just work.
>
> Can you say something about how the self-encrypted system appears to
> users? When do they enter the password? What software asks for the
> password? Is it an alternate boot loader? You mention that any standard
> PC hardware should work, but sometimes I have seen it said that the BIOS
> must support encryption - is that false or an alternative arrangement?
> How is the password established? Is there a Windows program that one
> runs to turn on encryption and establish the key? Is there a similar
> Linux program? Can a drive move from Windows to Linux without losing the
> data?
>
> The vendor literature is long on the benefits, but short description.

Halleluja, brother, amen!