nate wrote: > Agile Aspect wrote: > >> Hi - I've been asked to re-partition a >> >> Dell 120 GB 5400 RPM Encrypted Serial ATA Hard Drive >> >> and install CentOS 5 on the new partition. >> >> It's a Dell Lattitude E5400 laptop. >> >> Is this even possible with encrypted drives? >> > > How is it encrypted? Some new laptops come with drive encryption > built into the hardware which I believe is totally transparent > to the OS, sample device: > http://www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/datasheet/disc/ds_momentus_5400_fde_3.pdf > > Looking at this: > http://accessories.dell.com/sna/products/Internal_Hard_Drives/productdetail.aspx?c=ca&l=en&s=dhs&cs=cadhs1&sku=341-6557 > > The drive they have seems similar, so I would expect > re-partitioning to work fine, though of course backup any > important data before trying. > > nate > > Excuse a really dumb question, how does this provide me with security? I assume it still uses the normal SATA interface and thus the OS writes to the drive as normal, but now it is encrypted onto the physical media..... so now I steal the laptop, or just the physical drive, plug it into my SATA controller and voila read all the encrypted data off the drive??? I am obviously missing something - there must be a key somewhere off the drive for this to work as a securely encrypted system. Flumoxed! > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: rkampen.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 121 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090326/46e7b74b/attachment-0003.vcf>