Reading really old email, but have new information to add.
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 02:15:38PM +1000, Daniel Carosone wrote:
> Speculation: the drive always encrypts the platters with a (fixed) AES
> key, obviating the need to track which sectors are encrypted or
> not. Setting the drive password s
http://www.matasano.com/log/1749/typing-the-letters-a-e-s-into-your-code-youre-doing-it-wrong/
Towards the end of this rather offbeat blog post they describe a
rather clever attack which is possible when the application provides
error messages (i.e. is an error oracle) for PKCS7 padding in e.g. AE
