Self-encrypting deception: weaknesses in the encryption of solid state drives [pdf]

Re:Self-encrypting deception: weaknesses in the encryption o... by zaroth on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @09:56AM (#21584402)

> BitLocker, the encryption software built into Microsoft Win- dows will rely exclusively on hardware full-disk encryption if the SSD advertises support for it. Thus, for these drives, data protected by BitLocker is also compromised.

I thought BitLocker stopped trusting SEDs after the last time around when drives were discovered to be trivially broken? [1]

But apparently this change only just happened a couple months ago. [2]

[1] - https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/flaws-in-self-encry...

[2] - https://www.pcworld.com/article/3441864/bitlocker-windows-bu...

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Re:Self-encrypting deception: weaknesses in the encryption o... by spzb on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @10:18AM (#21584623)

This appears to be the same paper as in your first link. It was a draft at the time and now appears to have made it to a conference presentation.

Edit: In fact the conference was in May so about six months after the first story based on the draft version. Not quite sure why it's hitting HN front page now

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Re:Self-encrypting deception: weaknesses in the encryption o... by isido on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @10:19AM (#21584632)

I think this is the published paper which contains the same vulnerabilites mentioned in the first link.

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