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Using the encryption provided by the drive seems like a terrible idea. What happens in 10 years when you want to retrieve the data and that company has gone ou
by jandrese 3y ago
Using the encryption provided by the drive seems like a terrible idea. What happens in 10 years when you want to retrieve the data and that company has gone out of business?
- throw0101c 3y agoAs I understand it (AIUI) the encryption is in the standard: * https://www.lto.org/encryption/ https://www.lto.org/encryption/
- Karunamon 3y agoIt's functionality exposed by the drive as part of the tape standard, not something unique to vendor of the drive. Any LTO-aware software given the same key would be able to decrypt the data using any drive that can read that generation of tape. That's probably one of the items on the list of reasons there are so few vendors in the space, LTO drives are essentially fungible and don't do anything interesting across vendors.