Abit's SecureIDE

[bear]

On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Mads Rasmussen wrote:

>
>There seems to be a new interesting product from Abit, a motherboard
>manufacturer.
>
>"SecureIDE", supposed to encrypt information between the CPU and the IDE
>HD.
>
>Have a look at
>http://www.abit.com.tw/abitweb/webjsp/english/SecureIDE.htm
>
>The idea is simple:
>
>CPU <--> Chip <--> HD

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>I quote:
>
>"40-bit DES (US Data Encryption Standard) is adequate for general users"

Interesting.  Can these chips be usefully cascaded?

				Bear


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