If your footage is in any way confidential...

[Mike 'Fireman' Ross]

… you probably want some of these:

http://www.istorage-uk.com/diskashur.php

Not sure if they've been mentioned before; new to me, and intriguing.

Mike

 

[Jeff Kilgroe]

Er.... yuck.

Why not just run encryption on a regular drive? Guess I don't understand the extra purpose of the keypad deal to activate/deactivate the interface. What if the enclosure takes a crap? I can't just pop the drive out, can I? Is their encryption proprietary or what? Guess I'm not a fan of further complications or abstractions.

I deal with lots of secure data as I have military clients. First of all, it doesn't matter how many safeguards, encryption schemes, etc.. there are on a portable storage device... Much of the secure data I deal with is not allowed to go on such devices. Period. "Military grade 128 bit or 256 bit AES encryption..." WTF? LOL. I don't think US DOD and other agencies would be happy with anything less than 1024 bit these days.

Encryption algorithms are actually classified by the US Government as munitions. Most people don't know this. It seems odd at first, but actually makes complete sense. There are qualification programs and grade levels. I don't know off the top of my head what the current "bit value" is, but encryption algorithms using more than a certain level of encryption are actually not able to be lawfully sold domestically or exported For a while, anything over 256 bits automatically sent up red flags and was immediately targeted until reviewed by the DOD/ DOJ. Running joke out there was that they don't want any of us little people to have any encryption they can't break.

 

[Justin Chin]

On studio jobs that I've been on through local VFX houses, they use Truecrypt. Simple to use, open source for Windows, OSX, and Linux. If the big VFX houses use it, so do I.

www.truecrypt.org

 

[Mike 'Fireman' Ross]

Oh I'm all in favour of software encryption, and I use Truecrypt extensively.

This struck me as an interesting device-independent solution; you can walk into any client or facility with this thing, and not have to tell them you need to install Truecrypt on their systems to access the data...

Mike