FOSS cross-platform data drive encryption

[Sam Kuper]

On 23 March 2012 19:24, Sam Kuper <sam.kuper at uclmail.net> wrote:
> On 23 March 2012 19:17, Gary Little <gglittle at comcast.net> wrote:
>> My first thought is to go buy an FDE (full disk encryption) hard disk. Both Seagate and Hitachi have them. That is probably the most reliable means of transporting encrypted data across platforms.
>
> Interesting. Do any of these drives run on FOSS firmware?
>
> If not, then I'm not sure I'd consider them dependable, at least from
> a security standpoint.

Hm, it's not just the firmware that's in question. To use the Seagate
FDE drives on a Mac, one has to use "Seagate Secure" software, too,
which is proprietary:
http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/206011en#4 I haven't
yet been able to find any helpful information about the Hitachi
drives, but I suspect they're similar.

Sam