TPM chips are a great general step forward, and are one solution – but surely you arent going to throw away all your existing laptops and buy new ones all with TPM chips? So what about protecting all your legacy laptops? What about deployment and management?
As a comparison for instance, Microsoft Windows XP (Professional version only) already features a little known encryption system EFS, but no one uses it because it is too complicated and it makes the machines very slow. If a solution is difficult to install, manage and use then mistakes can happen – or more likely users wont use it at all. DriveCrypt is a very easy, two minute install. If you have ten or ten thousand machines you can, from the central management console, install the software automatically and be fully protected – no matter what hardware they have – in a matter of an hour or so. DriveCrypt also offers special features which other solutions do not, for instance, the possibility to set more than one password for one computer. This means that if a person is forced by an aggressor to reveal a password that person can instead reveal a “false” password. This will boot a fake operating system which is not distinguishable from the original one. So although the aggressor does ha
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