Cyberiade.it Anonymous Remailer <anonymous@remailer.cyberiade.it> wrote
in news:bb99cc26dc49bc02c46f1065f6f6300a@remailer.cyb eriade.it:

> nemo_outis wrote:
....
>> Safeboot (Safeboot/Mcaffee) describes its product as "full-disk
>> encryption"
>> http://www.safeboot.com/products/endpointencryption/
>>
>> Winmagic (SecureDoc) describes its product as "full disk
>> encryption" http://www.winmagic.com/corporate_info/20070424.asp
>>
>> Utimaco (Safeguard Easy) describes its product as "full hard disk
>> encryption"
>> http://americas.utimaco.com/
>>
>> Entrust (Entelligence) describes its product as "full disk
>> encrytpion" http://www.entrust.com/laptop-security/index.htm
>>
>> Checkpoint (Pointsec) describes its product as "full disk
>> encrytpion" http://www.checkpoint.com/products/datasecurity/pc/
>>
>> Safenet (Protectdrive) describes its product as "full-disk
>> encryption" http://www.safenet-
>> inc.com/products/data_at_rest_protection/Protectdrive.asp
>>
>> PGP Corp (WholeDisk) describes its product as "full disk
>> encryption"
>> http://www.pgp.com/newsroom/mediarel...wholedisk.html
>>
>> Securstar (Drivecrypt Plus Pack) describes its product as "full
>> disk encryption"
>> http://www.securstar.com/products_drivecryptpp.php
>>
>> IOW it is near-universal practice for even the providers
>> themselves to describe such products as providing "full disk
>> encryption" (although they have an unencrypted bootable stub on
>> the system drive).
>
> The stub doesn't have anything to do with it you obsessively
> stragrabbing nitwit. Truecrypt and Bestcrypt aren't full disk
> encryption programs. Learn to live with that and quit trying to
> redefine them just to sooth your bruised ego.
>
>>
>> Bestcrypt and Truecrypt provide almost identical core
>> functionality to those above (i.e. encrypt the full disk but
>> require an unencrypted boot stub) and so, following
>> near-universal practice, are appropriately described as providing
>> "full disk encryption."
>>
>> If you want to ignore accepted terminology - including that used
>> within the industry itself! - it is you who are out of step and
>> not the rest of the world.
>
> You're the one ignoring accepted terminology here nitwit.

Nope, dope. It's been longtanding near-universal industry practice,
dating back to Scramdisk days and before, to call an OTFE system that
encrypts the full hard disk (except a bootstub) "full disk" encryption.

And the terminology still dominantly persists today - I cited 8 OTFE
providers who describe their products as "full disk" enbcryption.

Regards,