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 And the concept seems to be reasonable at first eyesight, skipping the stuff like the quote below, which gives me a snakeoil feeling. "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 forever." There is a datasheet that tells it all ftp://ftp.abit.com.tw/pub/download/fae/secureide_eng_v100.pdf I quote: "40-bit DES (US Data Encryption Standard) is adequate for general users" How can they make something, seemingly good and then blow it by using only 40-bit DES keys? It cannot be export controls can it? Well they did only say weeks in the first quote above :o) Mads Rasmussen www.opencs.com.br --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
