Disk-level and file-level encryption is not supported at Cornell (including in ChemIT)

• No documentation.
• No recommendations
• No central key-escrow.
• No support for either technical staff nor end-users.

ChemIT's current capabilities

• Consultation, if you have an interest.
• Benefits, use-cases. Maybe it's overkill, at this time, for the data in question.
• Alternatives. If the data is not on your laptop, there no need to have encrypted data on the laptop.
• Risks. You may lose your data because of the encryption, through technical failures or losing keys. Your backups may not be set up correctly, due to encryption. There is not university support in such situations, including from ChemIT.
• Very limited training via some show-and-tell. We do not provide on-going support for anyone choosing to do encryption.

Future direction

If and when Cornell provides central support for file-level or disk-level encryption, ChemIT can naturally expand its services as appropriate.