Fred Knight

For many of you this will be a new term, take a few minutes to listen to Fred Knight explain the topic ahead of the main presentation.

The Key Per IO (KPIO) project is a joint initiative between NVM Express® and the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) Storage Work Group to define a new KPIO Security Subsystem Class (SSC) under TCG Opal SSC for NVMe® class of Storage Devices.  Self-Encrypting Drives (SED) perform continuous encryption on user accessible data based on contiguous LBA ranges per namespace.  This is done at interface speeds using a small number of keys generated/held in persistent media by the storage device.