U.S. Gov't To Use Full Disk Encryption On All Computers

To address the issue of data leaks of the kind we've seen so often in the last year because of stolen or missing laptops, writes Saqib Ali, the Feds are planning to use Full Disk Encryption (FDE) on all Government-owned computers. "On June 23, 2006 a Presidential Mandate was put in place requiring all agency laptops to fully encrypt data on the HDD. The U.S. Government is currently conducting the largest single side-by-side comparison and competition for the selection of a Full Disk Encryption product. The selected product will be deployed on Millions of computers in the U.S. federal government space. This implementation will end up being the largest single implementation ever, and all of the information regarding the competition is in the public domain. The evaluation will come to an end in 90 days. You can view all the vendors competing and list of requirements."

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File formats

[1u3hr]

Interesting the specifications are supplied in:
DOC
DOC
XLS
DOC
DOC
DOC
PPT
PDF
DOC

So much for open formats.

Oh my

[ewhenn]

In an unpredictable move the Bush administration has awarded the contract to.... Halliburton.

Re:But why?

[dekropisvol]

Until your President signs a law for what is common at the moment, it won't be after this and all your activities are monitored till years ago. Nice to have a friend in your cell who want's to have sex with you, only for walking funny before singing the law against funny walks. DON'T WALK FUNNY

Eureka

[PopeRatzo]

We've finally found this administration's area of competency. They clearly can't govern, can't fight a war, can't balance a budget or tell the truth. They can't solve a problem or secure the borders or prevent a terrorist attack (this thing happened back on 9/11/01).

But they know how to make stuff secret. Yessir, they sure know how to use that super-double-secret ink-stamp.