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The Era of Self-Encrypting Drives (SEDs)
Jorge Campello, Hitachi GST
January 5th, 2010
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Self-Encrypting Drive (SED)
Self-Encrypting Drives are non-volatile storage devices that encrypt the data received through the interface before writing to the non-volatile storage medium. The data is decrypted after being retrieved from the non-volatile medium and before being sent out through the interface.
Controller Non-Volatile Medium
Raw data
Raw data
Encryption Engine
%d@!^v*#
Self-Encrypting Drive
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Trusted Computing Group (TCG)
The Trusted Computing Group (TCG) is a not-for-profit organization formed to develop, define, and promote open standards for hardware-enabled trusted computing and security technologies.
Promoter Companies
Over 100 companies including
Absolute
Dell
GardianEdge
Hitachi
Link-A-Media
LSI
Marvell
McAfee
Micron
NetApp
PMC-Sierra
Samsung
SanDisk
Seagate
STEC
STMicroelectronics
Symantec
Toshiba
Ulink
Western Digital
WinMagicwww.trustedcomputinggroup.org
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SED & TCG Standards Evolution
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
TCG Publishes the first Self-Encrypting Drive Standards
TCG Publishes the first Self-Encrypting Drive Standards
TCG is founded
Storage Systems Subgroup is formed
Elevated to Storage WG
All major HDD vendors and many Flash vendors have joined TCG
First vendor announces a Self-Encrypting Drive
Second vendor introduces a Self-Encrypting Drive
TCG publishes a draft version of the Storage WG Core Specification
Several companies announce solutions based on the upcoming TCG Self-Encrypting Drive Standards
At least 4 HDD/SSD vendors have announced/are shipping Self-Encrypting Drives based on the TCG standards.
At least 10 software/integrator/ system/solution vendors have announced/are shipping solutions using Self-Encrypting Drives designed based on the TCG standards.
The Dawn of the Era of Self-Encrypting Drives
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Self-Encrypting Drive Specifications
Core Spec SIIS
Opal SSC Enterprise SSC
Specific
Documents
General
Documents
Published January 2009
SIIS = Storage Interface Interactions Specification; SSC = Storage Subsystem Class
Client Systems Storage Systems