It'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 wou

It'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.