[Edited to have link set correctly – rare problem with what I use for weblog formatting.]
Got a rather interesting topic sent my way tonight – Apparently the group that maintains the LTO tape standard is looking to include hardware encryption into its tape drive. Link here.
The person who brought this up had an interesting (and important to many in the backup field) comment: “If they get it right the crypto will be able to happen alongside the drive compression, and then we just have to worry about how we’ll feed 240MB/sec into the darn things.”
Yes, that’s 240 Meg per second. Should hold 800 Gig of data natively on a tape too, IIRC. ‘Fun’ enterprise-level stuff; Thankfully I don’t worry about that kind of insane workloads yet…
[Oh, P.S. – I did get out of jury duty after day two; Case got settled. *insert sigh of relief here*]