Disk Manufacturers Settle on Encryption Standard

[Guest]

The six largest disk makers on the planet have decided on a universal encryption standard that will be used on all storage drives, both disk based and solid state.

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[jhansonxi]

Trusted Computing Group - the ultimate in DRM:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Computing_Group

 

[joex444]

This is pathetically unspecific. What kind of encryption did they decide on, a Caesar shift cipher or AES256?

 

[TheViper]

Maybe it uses a Rotating Clear Text.

 

[Guest]

We can make harddrive password mandatory during boot up, to access the content of harddrive.
If we dont know the password, then we need to re-format the harddrive.

So the control is actually at bios level by using hardware, not software.

 

[dconnors]

[citation][nom]joex444[/nom]This is pathetically unspecific. What kind of encryption did they decide on, a Caesar shift cipher or AES256?[/citation]

This is a news post, so the details were few for a reason. Check out the statement (PDF) @ the bottom of the post.
-Devin

 

[jawshoeaw]

Hail Caeser!

 

[slapdashzero]

Maybe this is just the cynic in me, but by creating a standard, on the other side of the blade, does that not also mean that once someone figures out a workaround/crack for the encryption, they can just dance from machine to machine and open them all up with the same method?

 

[bounty]

Yeah slap-0, but this way the cops have a standardized backdoor.

 

[hellwig]

slapdashzero: are you striving for security through interoperability? So far, having Windows, Linux, Unix, and MacOs hasn't stopped virii from being developed for all the OSs. Sure, Windows is a bigger target, and thus affects more people, but that's Microsofts fault for lax security development, not because its OS is nearly ubiquitous.

Hopefully by working together, there will be a single, stronger encryption rather than 6 weaker ones that require your company to purchase 6 different types of software, or only purchase from a single harddrive manufacturer.

 

[jrabbitb]

@anonymous_1

ever hear of resetting the bios. password gone. access granted. the only way to prevent it is custom bios w/ a password build in and a requirement on password at the bios level. good luck getting custom bios written.

also, remove drive, put in other box, bios totally removed from the equation.

Physical access means i have broken your security, in time, i WILL brute force you. current encryption standards wont hold up, that's why we keep making new standards.

 

[miltoxbeyond]

There is true-crypt... sounds like it can do boot-ups with whole-disk encryption so if you do pop it in another box you can't do anything without the password...