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Re:Why the Future of Data Storage Is Still Magnetic Tape by Aaron1011 on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @11:13PM (#17865239)
> And tape is very secure, with built-in, on-the-fly encryption

What exactly is this referring to?

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Re:Why the Future of Data Storage Is Still Magnetic Tape by wmf on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @11:27PM (#17865330)
It probably means the drive does the encryption, but so do hard drives and SSDs.
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Re:Why the Future of Data Storage Is Still Magnetic Tape by rout39574 on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @08:23AM (#17867649)
yeah, that. KMS involving the library and maybe an external key server.
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