RE: Storage of a Save 21 Tape

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

by "too expensive" I presume you mean performance/throughput...you ALWAYS 
wanna do that kinda crypto in hardware unless there's a really good reason 
not to.

Don in DC

On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Al Barsa wrote:

> No.  This is an requirement to IBM.  You would have to have encryption
> hardware at the IOP/IOA level, as this would be too expensive to do in
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> Does the i5 support tape encryption?  Does anyone use it?  (Remembering
> the debacle where a bunch of backup tapes with SSN's, etc on it for some
> major firm came up missing.)
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