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To: TREND1 who wrote (294)	4/26/2007 2:13:35 PM
From: TREND1	Respond to of 604

Wave e-mail re: flash drives: ................................. Posted by: Ramsey2 In reply to: None Date:4/26/2007 1:49:48 PM Post #of 143127 Wave e-mail re: flash drives: Inquiry: I notice SanDisk is a TCG contributor. Dell is planning on offering flash drives in notebooks: techworld.com Do you see flash drives being broadly adopted in enterprise and government notebooks near-term, and if so do you see any possibility SanDisk will provide FDE in their flash drives, and along with that the potential to work with Wave? Has Wave had any dialogue w/ SanDisk? Response: I think flash drives are going to be pretty 'nichey' to start with because of costs, etc. There is the other category of hybrid drives which combine flash and a regular drive as well. Eventually all drives will have encryption which is actually the 'easy' part of the problem. Developing access control, and other security features in the drive firmware, like Seagate has done with DriveTrust is a much more complex undertaking so adding that to these other drive technologies will happen, but likely to take some time. I can't talk specifically, but you can assume that Wave is working with all the drive folks who are likely to have encrypting drives and will need the management and user software for them, like TDM and ERAS.