[Cryptography] Shredding a file on a flash-based file system?

[Darren Lasko]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Bear <bear at sonic.net> wrote:

> Under what circumstances would an attacker have the drive
> platters in hand, but not have access to the key which is
> stored in the drive hardware?
>

When the encryption key isn't just "stored" in the drive hardware.  Any
implementation worth its salt will only store the key wrapped with the
authentication credentials required for unlocking the drive.  This is no
different from how software-based full drive encryption products protect
their encryption keys.

-Darren
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