LTOEnc – LTO Encryption Management is a small program to manage encryption on your LTO Tapes on Microsoft Windows. It supports LTO4 drives and higher. It can co-exist with LTFS drivers.
It has been tested with a HP Ultrium5 3000, IBM ULT3580-HH5 and IBM ULTRIUM 7 HH Tape Drives.
The program is based on STENC
LTOEnc /?
Displays help text
LTOEnc /k mykey.txt /g 256
Generates a new key in mykey.txt with the length of 256 Bits
LTOEnc /k mykey.txt /e mixed
Turn on tape encryption in mixed mode (reads encrypted and unencrypted data from tape, writes encrypted data)
LTOEnc /s /e off
Turn off tape encryption
LTOEnc /volumestatus
Displays status of drive and tape
- Any C++ compiler (I use Visual Studio 2017, but GCC on MingW should work too)
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