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Re:Rowhammer-like attack on SSDs can provide root privileges... by Piskvorrr on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @06:08PM (#15031787)
Bog-standard. As mentioned in sibling thread, you could find really old SSDs without this feature, but they're getting rare.
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Re:Rowhammer-like attack on SSDs can provide root privileges... by ericseppanen on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @09:10PM (#15032846)
Drives that lack cryptographic scrambling are not rare. Search a few vendors' sites and you'll find some that don't support "self-encrypting" capabilities.
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Re:Rowhammer-like attack on SSDs can provide root privileges... by wtallis on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @09:37PM (#15032995)
It's pretty common for drives to have hardware AES support even if they don't implement the full TCG Opal feature set for use as a "self encrypting drive". I think Phison is the only SSD controller vendor that doesn't advertise encryption capability on all of their mainstream SSD controllers.
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