Patent ID: 8850224
Filing Date: 2014-09-30
Classification: G06F,G11B

Abstract:
1. An article of manufacture, comprising: a removable machine readable media item comprising a media portion and a non-media portion, where the media portion stores machine readable information; and an encryption policy information indicator that stores information to control an apparatus to perform an encryption policy associated with the removable machine readable media item; where the article of manufacture is used with an apparatus that selectively encrypts or decrypts the machine readable information as controlled by the encryption policy and an encryption key, the encryption policy and the encryption key being separate items, where the encryption policy information indicator is a notch in a housing of the removable machine readable media item, or a texture on the housing of the removable machine readable media item, where the encryption policy indicator controls a time at which machine readable information stored on the media portion is to be encrypted by the apparatus, where the encryption policy indicator controls how machine readable information stored on the media portion is to be encrypted by the apparatus, where the encryption policy indicator controls a time at which machine readable information stored on the media portion is to be decrypted by the apparatus, and where the encryption policy indicator controls how machine readable information stored on the media portion is to be decrypted by the apparatus.