[Cryptography] 35c3: HW SSD encryption == crap
Henry Baker
hbaker1 at pipeline.com
Tue Jan 8 12:20:30 EST 2019
https://media.ccc.de/c/35c3/
"Self-encrypting deception"
As you can guess, the built-in encryption for SSD's is
complete crap, but much, much worse: Microsoft Bitlocker
uses it by default if it exists!
Yes, Bitlocker can be told not to use the HW encryption,
but it is a pain, so most people won't go to the extra
effort to ignore the HW encryption.
Bottom line: well-implemented SW encryption is better
than built-in HW encryption.
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