[BBLISA] Looking for FDE single system windows 8

[John Orthoefer]

The encryption support is NOT on the motherboard only the ability to “Lock drives” or “Set a Drive Password” or a “BIOS Boot Password”  (They have a million names for it, but it’s all the same thing.) As far as I know every Modern BIOS supports this.   Like I said Apple doesn’t support this because their EFI doesn’t support “locked drives”   You can make the FDE/SED works but you need an outside product that partitions your drive into an unencrpted EFI boot partition and “the rest of the Drive.”  

This is a case where I really think it’s criminal that Apple doesn’t have baseboard support for Locked SATA Drives.   

johno

> On Jan 24, 2015, at 12:06 PM, Daniel Feenberg <feenberg at nber.org> wrote:
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> On Sat, 24 Jan 2015, Edward Ned Harvey (bblisa4) wrote:
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>>> From: bblisa [mailto:bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org] On Behalf Of Daniel
>>> Feenberg
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>>> Can you say something about how the self-encrypted system appears to
>>> users?
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>> The self-encrypting drives I've used have been like this:
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>> BIOS has support for self-encrypting drives.  When you power on the computer, you get a text prompt to enter password.  No need to re-enter when waking from sleep.  (Yes need to re-enter when waking from hibernate.)  Sometimes they support an Admin password and a User password.
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> So I need encryption support in the motherboard firmware? I haven't seen that advertised anywhere, nor have I seen it documented in any MB manual I have seen, so I guess the feature is very unusual. In fact, a search on Newegg for "sed" turns up no systems or motherboards. Weird.
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> dan feenberg
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