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		Aaron1011 on Aug 29, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why the Future of Data Storage Is Still Magnetic T... > And tape is very secure, with built-in, on-the-fly encryption What exactly is this referring to?

wmf on Aug 29, 2018 [–]

It probably means the drive does the encryption, but so do hard drives and SSDs.

rout39574 on Aug 29, 2018 | [–]

yeah, that. KMS involving the library and maybe an external key server.

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