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Re:Self-encrypting deception: weaknesses in the encryption o... by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC on Monday November 05, 2018 @02:36PM (#18385206)
> This challenges the view that hardware encryption is prefer-able over software encryption.

WAT? Who ever thought that? For exactly the reason you state, I certainly would not have recommended anyone to ever trust "hardware encryption". And it's not just that firmware tends to be terrible: We had plenty of "secure storage" thingies that weren't.

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Re:Self-encrypting deception: weaknesses in the encryption o... by igor_sk on Monday November 05, 2018 @04:26PM (#18386127)
properly implemented, hw encryption is better because it does not expose key material in the RAM even for a brief moment.
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Re:Self-encrypting deception: weaknesses in the encryption o... by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC on Monday November 05, 2018 @05:28PM (#18386567)
Well, yeah, sure, but who would possibly expect something like this to be implemented properly?
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Re:Self-encrypting deception: weaknesses in the encryption o... by acct1771 on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @01:00AM (#18388752)
95%+ of consumers.
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