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From: Ralf-P. Weinmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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