Though it has become a truism, the Sun White Paper "Encryption Strategies: The Key to Controlling Data" does not hesitate to pronounce that, in the current and future digital era, deleting a file is not a viable means of controlling data. The focus in the paper is controlling access to data, rather than the data itself. The paper further outlines Sun’s encryption strategy, discusses the pros and cons of three possible encryption methods, and discusses the challenge of key management in an encrypted world.
Sun Distinguished Engineer Glenn Brunette leads the interested reader on a four-part journey through the undergrowth a determined hacker would have to penetrate in order to attain root access inside a Solaris 10 OS non-global zone. He calls the trip "Hack-Fu - Deconstructing the Security Capabilities of the Solaris 10 OS."
The UltraSPARC T2 IPSec cryptographic operations performed by the crypto hardware accelerator on the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120/T5220 and the Sun Blade 6320 need to be activated by either downloading the activation file or ordering a CD. Under current U.S. export control laws, the activation file enabling IPSec is restricted.
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