[BBLISA] Looking for FDE single system windows 8

[Daniel Feenberg]

On Sat, 24 Jan 2015, Edward Ned Harvey (bblisa4) wrote:

>> From: bblisa [mailto:bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org] On Behalf Of Daniel
>> Feenberg
>>
>> Can you say something about how the self-encrypted system appears to
>> users?
>
> The self-encrypting drives I've used have been like this:
>
> BIOS has support for self-encrypting drives.  When you power on the 
> computer, you get a text prompt to enter password.  No need to re-enter 
> when waking from sleep.  (Yes need to re-enter when waking from 
> hibernate.)  Sometimes they support an Admin password and a User 
> password.
>

So I need encryption support in the motherboard firmware? I haven't seen 
that advertised anywhere, nor have I seen it documented in any MB manual I 
have seen, so I guess the feature is very unusual. In fact, a search on 
Newegg for "sed" turns up no systems or motherboards. Weird.

dan feenberg