Abit's SecureIDE

[james Hughes]

I misspoke.

The company that built the chip for Abit is aNova in Taiwan. They have 
a 3des version of their chip. They also sell a board that does this. 
$80 for DES and $150 for 3DES.

aNova also has a Laptop version.

Thanks

jim



On Friday, August 22, 2003, at 06:55 PM, bear wrote:

>
>
> 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
>
> <clip>
>
>> 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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