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Re:Samsung Announces Key-Value SSD Prototype by imtringued on Friday September 06, 2019 @05:54AM (#20894338)
>We've already seen where software encryption went to hardware encryption -- the result is that the encryption is mostly transparent to performance

Yeah but are you really sure that hardware encryption is safer? Are you sure that it's not secretly saving the key somewhere where it can be extracted? Are you sure that the hardware encryption works at all and that it's not just writing the data unencrypted?

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Re:Samsung Announces Key-Value SSD Prototype by cyphar on Saturday September 07, 2019 @12:08AM (#20901722)
In fact there are so many examples of hardware encryption being objectively broken[1]. I wouldn't trust it at all, and treat it as plain-text storage that probably has more firmware bugs that will lead to data loss.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18382975

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