These are taken from the manual:
- The current implementation runs as a standard DOS device driver, and
therefore works with both plain MSDOS or DRDOS as well as other
software such as Windows, QEMM, Share, disk cacheing software, Stacker,
JAM, and so on.
- Up to five encrypted volumes can be accessed at any one time, chosen
from a selection of as many volumes as there is storage for.
- Volumes can be quickly unmounted with a user-defined hotkey, or
automatically unmounted after a certain amount of time. They can also be
converted back to unencrypted volumes or have their contents destroyed if
required.
- The software contains various stealth features to minimise the
possibility of other programs monitoring or altering its operation.
- The encryption algorithms used have been selected to be free from any
patent restrictions, and the software itself is not covered by US export
restrictions as it was developed entirely outside the US (although once a
copy is sent into the US it can't be re-exported).
- SFS complies with a number of national and international data encryption
standards, among them ANSI X3.106, ANSI X9.30 Part 2,
Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 180, Australian
Standard 2805.5.2, ISO 10116:1991 and ISO 10126-2:1991, and is on
nodding terms with several other relevant standards.
- The documentation includes fairly in-depth analyses of various security
aspects of the software, as well as complete design and programming details
necessary to both create SFS-compatible software and to verify the
algorithms used in SFS. (Note: this is my favourite feature - PC)
- The encryption system provides reasonable performance. One tester has
reported a throughput of 250 K/s for the basic version of SFS, and 260 K/s
for the 486+ version on his 486 system, when copying a file with the DOS
copy command from one location on an SFS volume to another. Throughput on
a vanilla 386 system was reported at around 160 K/s.
- Direct access to IDE and SCSI drives is available for better
performance and for drives which aren't normally accessible to DOS (for
example systems with more than 2 hard drives).
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