Secure IDE?
Ralf-P. Weinmann
rpw at uni.de
Wed Jul 30 14:45:55 PDT 2003
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 04:20:37PM -0400, Trei, Peter wrote:
> ABIT has come out with a new motherboard, the
> "IC7-MAX3" featuring something called 'Secure
> IDE', which seems to involve HW crypto in the
> onboard IDE controller:
>
> >From the marketing fluff at
> http://www.abit.com.tw/abitweb/webjsp/english/news1.jsp?pDOCNO=en_0307251
>
> "For MAX3, the ABIT Engineers listened
> to users who were asking for information
> security. SecureIDE connects to your IDE
> hard disk and has a special decoder;
> without a special key, your hard disk cannot
> be opened by anyone. Thus hackers and
> would be information thieves cannot access
> your hard disk, even if they remove it from your
> PC. Protect your privacy and keep anyone
> from snooping into your information. Lock
> down your hard disk, not with a password,
> but with encryption. A password can be
> cracked by software in a few hours. ABIT's
> SecureIDE will keep government
> supercomputers busy for weeks and will
> keep the RIAA away from your Kazaa files."
>
> No, I have no idea what this actually means either.
> I'm trying to find out.
>
> Peter Trei
Yeah, that announcement just ran over the slashdot ticker. Someone posted the
following insightful link subsequently:
ftp://ftp.abit.com.tw/pub/download/fae/secureide_eng_v100.pdf
Looks like that sucker only does key-truncated version of DES called DES-40.
Right... did they say weeks? I'd say minutes, unless ABIT means [insert some
impoverished 3rd world country] government supercomputers.
It's snakeoil, move on, nothing to see here.
Cheers,
Ralf
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