I'm asking the following question here since this is where security experts reside, even though the question is not pertinent to my N360 installation.
Whether you encrypt a PDA or hard drive or folder the common denominator to all is a password, pass phrase, fingerprint or... to initiate entry to the device and subsequent automatic decryption.
So why bother with the encryption?
Once you correctly enter the pass... then the device data opens regardless of encryption or not since all is required for both entry and then decryption is the pass....
It seems the only value of encrypted data is for some James Bond level of data theft that is able to bypass the password getting to the data and the data is protected in that event being encrypted. But again, given that assumption, encryption would be of use to maybe .1% of the computing set of users?
I'm asking the following question here since this is where security experts reside, even though the question is not pertinent to my N360 installation.
Whether you encrypt a PDA or hard drive or folder the common denominator to all is a password, pass phrase, fingerprint or... to initiate entry to the device and subsequent automatic decryption.
So why bother with the encryption?
Once you correctly enter the pass... then the device data opens regardless of encryption or not since all is required for both entry and then decryption is the pass....
It seems the only value of encrypted data is for some James Bond level of data theft that is able to bypass the password getting to the data and the data is protected in that event being encrypted. But again, given that assumption, encryption would be of use to maybe .1% of the computing set of users?