[Noisebridge-discuss] Attacking FDE hardware solutions

Jacob Appelbaum jacob at appelbaum.net
Mon Jan 19 03:27:11 UTC 2009


Hi,

I wanted to announce the kick off of a slow but hopefully fruitful project:
https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Attacking_FDE_hardware_solutions

Many companies tout hard drives with built in encryption as the solution
to the Cold Boot Attack. Additionally, these drives are sold as a major
step forward in overall data security. In theory, this sounds like a
good idea; in practice this could go horribly wrong.

This project is currently in a research state to find different drives
that claim to offer specific security properties. It is expected that
many products will fail even the most cursory look.

Please add links to products, vendors, standards, prices and places to
purchase hardware. At some point, we'll start acquiring hardware to do
specific implementation analysis.

If you're knowledgeable about hardware based disk encryption; please add
information to the wiki!

Best,
Jake



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