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Ease of use (if it is hard to use, it won't be used)
Transparency to the user (beyond authenticating at login or boot up)
Recovery from forgotten passwords (don't loose the important data) and hardware failures
Effective encryption to thwart a thief from getting sensitive data off the disk
Ease of setup

The project is not focussed on:

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Is the data backed up encrypted or in the clear? (Dependent on backup solution)
- If encrypted in backup, what extra precautions must be taken to ensure recoverability of the data should a disk failure or forgotten password happen?
- Does the backup solution backup the data as a file (may make incremental system backups really large for FileVault)?
- What is the impact on incremental backups, particularly on multi-user systems?
Does the solution protect against a stolen laptop or hard drive?
What behaviors might a typical user do that would result in the data being on the disk unencrypted?
- What can be done to mitigate these risks?
How do the operating system tools compare to 3rd party products like PGP for functionality, key escrow, recovery, etc.?
What are other schools doing?
**Harvard appears to be going with PGP whole disk
**UPenn is at a similar state in evaluating possible solutions
How should central recovery work when passwords are lost?
- i.e. who should have the keys to unlock the castle
What steps can be done with installers or other tools to ease the setup and ensure useful configurations?
- like requiring non-blank login passwords, passwords to return from sleep, etc.
  *What performance hit does encrypting the files have, if any?
- Could play large video file from encrypted spot - see how long it took to load and if they was any file read problems, then do the same thing on the same machine from a non-encrypted location.

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