[Dailydave] U.S. Gov't to use Full Disk Encryption on All Computers

[Saqib Ali]

To address the issue of data leaks from stolen or missing laptops, US
Government is planning to use Full Disk Encryption (FDE) on all of the
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 US Government is currently conducting the largest single
side-by-side comparison and competition for the selection of a Full
Disk Encryption product. The evaluation will come to a end in 90 days.
The selected product will be deployed on Millions of computers in the
US 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.

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