Re: AES HDD encryption was XOR

2008-12-11 Thread dan
Victor Duchovni writes: -+- | The computing power of the microprocessor is still under | 32 powers of 2 from its inception, naive extrapolation | to the next 32 powers of 2 is unwise. Well taken, indeed. But what I am myself interested in is the relationship of the three

Re: AES HDD encryption was XOR

2008-12-09 Thread Jon Callas
In the NBC TV episode of /Chuck/ a couple of weeks ago, the NSA cracked a 512-bit AES cipher on a flash drive trying every possible key. Could be hours, could be days. (Only minutes in TV land.) http://www.nbc.com/Chuck/video/episodes/#vid=838461 (Chuck Versus The Fat Lady, 4th segment, at

Re: AES HDD encryption was XOR

2008-12-09 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 08:53:18PM -0800, Jon Callas wrote: In the NBC TV episode of /Chuck/ a couple of weeks ago, the NSA cracked a 512-bit AES cipher on a flash drive trying every possible key. Could be hours, could be days. (Only minutes in TV land.)

Re: AES HDD encryption was XOR

2008-12-08 Thread William Allen Simpson
Jerry Leichter wrote: ... accurately states that AES-128 is thought to be secure within the state of current and expected cryptographic knowledge, it propagates the meme of the short key length of only 128 bits. A key length of 128 bits is beyond any conceivable brute force attack - in and

AES HDD encryption was XOR

2008-12-07 Thread Alexander Klimov
http://www.heise-online.co.uk/security/Encrypting-hard-disk-housing-cracked--/news/112141: With its Digittrade Security hard disk, the German vendor Digittrade has launched another hard disk housing based on the unsafe IM7206 controller by the Chinese manufacturer Innmax. The German

Re: AES HDD encryption was XOR

2008-12-07 Thread Jerry Leichter
On Dec 7, 2008, at 4:10 AM, Alexander Klimov wrote: http://www.heise-online.co.uk/security/Encrypting-hard-disk-housing-cracked--/news/112141 : With its Digittrade Security hard disk, the German vendor Digittrade has launched another hard disk housing based on the unsafe IM7206 controller by