Tape sharing with other organizations

You can share tapes with other organizations for data transfer, joint development, contracting services, or other purposes. The methods for sharing encrypted tapes differ for 3592 tape drives and LTO™ tape drives.

If you move keys to your own disaster recovery location, use a keystore database. If you move keys to a business partner, provide a public key to the business partner.

Verify the validity of any certificate that is received from a business partner by checking the chain of trust of such a certificate back to the certificate authority (CA) that ultimately signed it. If you trust the CA, then you can trust that certificate. Alternatively, validity of a certificate can be verified when it was securely guarded during transfer. Failure to verify a certificate's validity in one of these ways might open the door to a Man-in-the-Middle attack.