Re: [lopsa-tech] Server disk encryption

2013-05-28 Thread David Lang
I agree, TPM in itself isn't EVIL, it depends on who owns the keys to your machine, you or "Big Media" However, as a practial matter, using TPM in this manner is difficult, You need to solve all the problems that you need to solve to effectively use Tripwire (or equivalent) on your system, inc

Re: [lopsa-tech] Server disk encryption

2013-05-28 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (lopser)
> From: Francis Liu [mailto:fish...@gmail.com] > > That's the most useful explanation of "why one might choose to have TPM" > I've ever read. Yeah, if you google for TPM, most of what you find is anti-DRM folks who want to pirate music and stuff like that. Which the TPM can do. (Enable more s

Re: [lopsa-tech] Server disk encryption

2013-05-28 Thread Francis Liu
That's the most useful explanation of "why one might choose to have TPM" I've ever read. On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 11:35 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) < lop...@nedharvey.com> wrote: > > From: tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org] > > On Behalf Of David Lang > > > > Fu

Re: [lopsa-tech] Server disk encryption

2013-05-27 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (lopser)
> From: tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org] > On Behalf Of David Lang > > Full disk encryption of local drives on the servers would theoretically give > you > similar protection, except that people are very reluctant to have servers that > cannot boot up without hu

Re: [lopsa-tech] Server disk encryption

2013-05-27 Thread David Lang
On Wed, 22 May 2013, Steven Kurylo wrote: How are you encrypting your server's disks, when they contain sensitive information? Are you doing full disk? With auto boot? Or do you use Mandos, or similar? Or enter the password manually for each machine? Or are you not bothering with encryption,

Re: [lopsa-tech] Server disk encryption

2013-05-23 Thread Steven Kurylo
> This also refers to NIST SP-800-111. > Thank you for the clarifications. > > It looks more like if your data at rest is encrypted (ie server hard > > drives), you're better protected under the law from penalties. But it's > > not mandatory yet.But it sounds like I would want to encrypt my

Re: [lopsa-tech] Server disk encryption

2013-05-23 Thread Tracy Reed
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 03:44:38PM PDT, Steven Kurylo spake thusly: > There are more articles than these ones, but for example: > http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/coveredentities/breachnotificationifr.html This one seems to be concerned with breach notification. If you lose an en

Re: [lopsa-tech] Server disk encryption

2013-05-22 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Wed, 22 May 2013, Steven Kurylo wrote: How are you encrypting your server's disks, when they contain sensitive information? Are you doing full disk? No. We identify directory trees that contain information that's either at risk (e.g., at an off-site location) or that puts us at risk (we'

Re: [lopsa-tech] Server disk encryption

2013-05-22 Thread Steven Kurylo
> > > Though for data which falls under hipaa, I understand it must be > encrypted > > on the server's disk. > > Not true. If you know otherwise please cite the appropriate federal > regulation > from 45 CFR ยง 164. HIPAA data being transported off-site needs to be > encrypted > although that isn't

Re: [lopsa-tech] Server disk encryption

2013-05-22 Thread Tracy Reed
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 01:30:47PM PDT, Steven Kurylo spake thusly: > How are you encrypting your server's disks, when they contain sensitive > information? For servers I generally don't do disk encryption. There are a couple of servers which are encrypted and I enter the key manually on boot but

[lopsa-tech] Server disk encryption

2013-05-22 Thread Steven Kurylo
How are you encrypting your server's disks, when they contain sensitive information? Are you doing full disk? With auto boot? Or do you use Mandos, or similar? Or enter the password manually for each machine? Or are you not bothering with encryption, and relying on your physical security instea