Re:Man jailed indefinitely for refusing to decrypt hard driv...
by DanBC on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @08:42AM
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> IIRC, there were some bad "hardware encryption" HDDs
About those: http://www.h-online.com/security/features/Enclosed-but-not-e...
Sadly the images appear to be not working. But they were very clear: what should have been a point cloud had clear lines.
Re:Man jailed indefinitely for refusing to decrypt hard driv...
by emidln on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @09:23AM
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Yes they can. It's not my fault the government has access to shit hardware or that it'll take a really long time. Encryption is just a really big combination lock with a very long series of inputs.
Re:Man jailed indefinitely for refusing to decrypt hard driv...
by paulddraper on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @01:58PM
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I put you in a room with an encrypted drive and no password, and you will eventually be able to open the drive.
That you acquire the password in the process of opening it is immaterial.
No, they can't. The way it's done is by trying many passwords until the right one is found. Once you have the right password, you can use it to decrypt the drive's contents, but then you are "opening it with the password".
(IIRC, there were some bad "hardware encryption" HDDs where the password wasn't actually used to encrypt the drive's contents, just verified against something in the drive's NVRAM; these can be bypassed. But that's not the case here.)