Can Linux do BitLocker better than Windows 7?
Our subject today is full-disk encryption, that useful security tool that keeps data on your hard drive safe even if the drive itself is in peril. It's the feature that Microsoft would have you spend an extra $120 for when upgrading to Windows 7 Ultimate. We'll compare the Windows approach to the problem with that of a leading Linux contender. (Mac folk, your turn may come. And then again maybe it won't.) And to make dead sure that we're balancing out the Windows fans on staff (looking at you, Mr. Fulton), we've asked Jeremy Garcia, Founder of LinuxQuestions.org, to provide insight into the comparison.
With data and computing devices ever smaller and easier to lose (or abscond with), companies in data-sensitive industries as well as the federal government have gotten serious in recent years about protecting the data on a drive even when the drive itself has been compromised.
Enter full-drive encryption, which protects data at rest (DAR) -- that is, even when no one's actively trying to access the data, it's safe. (Arguments that data is only at risk when not at rest will be entertained in other articles; that's not what we're doing here.
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