Submission + - Portable self-encrypting WD hard disk not so encrypted after all.
lesincompetent writes: Quoting the abstract should be enough to show how dire the situation is:
We will describe the security model of these devices and show several security weaknesses like RAM leakage, weak key attacks and even backdoors on some of these devices, resulting in decrypted user data, without the knowledge of any user credentials.
Paper by Alendal, Kison and modg is available here in PDF format.
We will describe the security model of these devices and show several security weaknesses like RAM leakage, weak key attacks and even backdoors on some of these devices, resulting in decrypted user data, without the knowledge of any user credentials.
Paper by Alendal, Kison and modg is available here in PDF format.
