It is longstanding near-universal practice, including in the industry
itself, to refer to OTFE encryption of all partitions (except for a
bootstub) as "full disk" encryption. It is those who differ with this
standard terminology who are out of step, not the rest of the world.

Although the point hardly needs further corroboration, I will generously
give more...


In addition to the 8 vendors already cited a few posts back, all of whom
describe their product as providing "full disk" encryption:

Secude (Finallysecure) also describes its product as providing "Full Disk
Encryptiont" (capitalized yet!).
http://www.secude.com/htm/583/en/Pro..._Solutions.htm

Mobile Armor (DataArmor) describes its product as providing "Full Disk
Encryption."
http://www.mobilearmor.com/press_070705.php

And as already mentioned, Compusec describes its product as providing
"entire hard disk" encryption.
http://www.ce-
infosys.com/english/downloads/free_compusec/free_compusec_faq.html

Moreover, the web page listing OTFE encryption vendors (to which one
mouthbreather here pointed some posts back) is itself titled "Full Disk
Encryption Providers"
http://www.full-disk-encryption.net/...ncryption.html

And to remind folks of the 8 vendors previously cited, here they are
again:

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

Regards,