On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 03:50:27PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
Without access to the device (I've contacted Hitachi EMEA to find out if
it is possible to purchase the special disks) it is difficult to infer
how it works, but the final page of the howto seems strange:
...
NOTE: All
* Simon Josefsson:
One would assume that if you disable the password, the data would NOT be
accessible. Making it accessible should require a read+decrypt+write of
the entire disk, which would be quite time consuming. It may be that
this is happening in the background, although it isn't
| I often say, Rub a pair of cryptographers together, and you'll
| get three opinions. Ask three, you'll get six opinions. :-)
|
| However, he's talking about security, which often isn't quantifiable!
From what I see in the arguments, it's more complicated than that.
On one side, we have
http://www.freepatentauction.com/patent.php?nb=950
Snake Oil Keywords:
1) Breach-proof Encryption,
2) landmark invention in Cryptography and Information Security
saqib
http://security-basics.blogspot.com/
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The Cryptography
