Re: Securing tape backup drive

Vern

At 07:39 AM 3/20/2007, you wrote:

triple des is supported along with RC2.  Two different BIFs.

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Roger

I just looked at it - the encryption is RC2 - so you'd need to write
a UDF to get anything else - but there are lots of algorithms
available on iSeries.

HTH
Vern

At 10:39 AM 3/19/2007, you wrote:

>What is the encryption that SQL uses when you have it encrypt a column?
>I've only heard about this and am thinking of investigating it as
>another step to protect the specific column of the file that already has
>heavy object security on it.
>
>Roger
>
>On 3/19/2007 9:55 AM, Jones, John (US) wrote:
> > Yep, our 3582 has a lock.  Beyond that pretty much every equipment
rack
> > can be configured with locking front & rear panels.  Neither the tape
> > library nor the rack locks are particularly robust but they will at
> > least slow down anyone intent on accessing the media/equipment.
> >
> > BTW, IANAL but if you were using a 'modern' encryption method like
> > AES256 I'm pretty sure the breach notification can be avoided.  IBM is
> > severely behind the times on tape (and disk for that matter)
encryption
> > support for the iSeries.
> >
> >
>
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