Replies to post #163033 on Wave Systems Corp. (fka WAVXQ)

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ootommy re: Wave/SafeNet:

Wave's motivation behind being a SafeNet reseller is to be able to offer a prospective hardware FDE customer the ability to protect their legacy laptops (already deployed with no FDE drives or software FDE) with SafeNet FDE software. Therefore the customer can get the best solution (hardware FDE managed by Wave) on their new machines, and deploy SafeNet software FDE (managed by Wave) on their legacy machines. In this way all machines are FDE-protected, and all managed under the Wave ERAS console.

There is also the scenario where a Wave FDE customer already has SafeNet FDE deployed, and if they move to Wave-managed FDE drives on their new machines, perhaps they could bring their existing SafeNet FDE seats under ERAS management to complement ERAS management of their new machines with FDE drives. Maybe we will see this in the government where SafeNet has a significant presence.

As far as the TPM, yes, I suppose it's possible Wave could make SafeNet keys securable in the TPM, if SafeNet does not already have this feature. As far as TPM and the Seagate FDE drive, there is no direct connection to the TPM at this time...TPM is not needed...later versions will use the TPM, but the current Seagate FDE.2 does not. Presently the Seagate keys are stored in a partitioned area of the drive itself where they are very secure.