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Gelsinger on hardware-based drive encryption

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070919-otellini-on-intels-gpu-gelsinger-on-hardware-based-drive-encryption.html

Danbury disk encryption
Gelsinger's presentation contained a passing reference to a hardware-based disk encryption technology called Danbury. The notion seems to be that there will be encryption hardware in the chipset, and that this hardware will be used to encrypt hard drives. This would presumably make hard drive products with built-in encryption hardware obsolete.
There was some question over at ExtremeTech as to whether Danbury would take advantage of Intel's vPro (formerly "LaGrande") technology and the trusted computing module (TPM) in particular. I think the answer to this has to be "yes."
It wouldn't make much sense to me to put another block of encryption hardware into any of the chipset components if there's already one there in the form of the TPM. I can't imagine that the TPM will stay all that busy in regular desktop usage scenarios, so it should have enough cycles to service hard drive read and write requests.