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The Era of Self-Encrypting Drives (SEDs) Jorge Campello, Hitachi GST January 5th, 2010

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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

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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