Full Disk Encryption solutions selected for US Government use

Peter Gutmann pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz
Mon Oct 8 08:25:14 EDT 2007


"Steven M. Bellovin" <smb at cs.columbia.edu> writes:
>On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:57:36 -0700 "Ali, Saqib" <docbook.xml at gmail.com> wrote:
>> US Government has select 9 security vendors that will product drive
>> and file level encryption software.
>
>Out of curiousity, are any open source FDE products being evaluated?

Given that it's for USG use, I imagine the FIPS 140 entry barrier for the
government gravy train would be fairly effective in keeping any OSS products
out.

Peter.

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