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Toshiba offers self-encryption drive security
TOSHIBA has announced its latest self-encrypting drive technology which it says will be in the shops in 2010.
The technology uses the Trusted Computing Group Storage Architecture Core Specification along with the Storage Security Subsystem Class Opal Specification.
According to a press release it will be built around NIST-certified AES encryption technology that is fully integrated with the drive controller chip.
It means that encryption can takes place at full I/O speeds so it is fast and does not use too much juice.
Meanwhile the outfit said it would cut 3,900 temporary jobs after revealing it expects to make a loss of Y350 billion (£2,391,000,000) in its current fiscal year
The firm already axed 4,500 temporary workers last year. Makes you wonder if any are actually supposed to be permanent. µ
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@Safer Sechs
they already have keys to this
Since the encryption scheme is US-NIST approved based on AES (not that I count on AES), I am wondering if a Japanese company (excellent R&D, but easily manipulated) dares to sell a product that does not come with an US-NSA approved backdoor or an AES key so short that brute-force decryption is possible in a reasonable time frame?
Security rule #1: do not trust another party to address your security concerns.
Where do the encryption keys get stored when using encrypted drives?
Mon, April 13, 2009
Ghost hackers are this century's spies
UPDATED: 2009-04-13 02:46:28 MST
By PAUL HAVEN & HRM Drashek, THE UN ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Ghost hackers infiltrating computers of Tibetan exiles and the U.S. electric grid have pulled the curtain back on 21st-century espionage as nefarious as anything from the Cold War -- and far more difficult to stop.
Nowadays, a hacker with a high-speed Internet connection, knowledge of computer security and some luck can pilfer information thought to be safely ensconced in a digital locker
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