New DoD encryption mandate

Steven M. Bellovin smb at cs.columbia.edu
Wed Aug 15 09:24:30 EDT 2007


According to http://www.fcw.com/article103467-08-13-07-Print the US
Defense Department has mandated that all sensitive but unclassified
information on mobile devices must be encrypted in compliance with FIPS
140-2.  "Mobile devices" include laptops, PDAs, CDs, flash drives, etc.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb

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