Michael Coles gave this talk  SQL Server 2008 Encryption - Protecting Your Data @ Rest  at our NJ SQL User Group meeting.

Michael is a SQL developer and database architect with 15 years experience. He works for a BI consulting firm in NYC and is the author of Pro T-SQL 2008 Programmer’s Guide and Pro SQL Server 2008 XML

He and Hilary Cotter collaborated on Pro Full-Text Search in SQL Server 2008