On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 04:20:37PM -0400, Trei, Peter wrote: > ABIT has come out with a new motherboard, the > "IC7-MAX3" featuring something called 'Secure > IDE', which seems to involve HW crypto in the > onboard IDE controller: > > >From the marketing fluff at > http://www.abit.com.tw/abitweb/webjsp/english/news1.jsp?pDOCNO=en_0307251 > > "For MAX3, the ABIT Engineers listened > to users who were asking for information > security. SecureIDE connects to your IDE > hard disk and has a special decoder; > without a special key, your hard disk cannot > be opened by anyone. Thus hackers and > would be information thieves cannot access > your hard disk, even if they remove it from your > PC. Protect your privacy and keep anyone > from snooping into your information. Lock > down your hard disk, not with a password, > but with encryption. A password can be > cracked by software in a few hours. ABIT's > SecureIDE will keep government > supercomputers busy for weeks and will > keep the RIAA away from your Kazaa files." > > No, I have no idea what this actually means either. > I'm trying to find out. > > Peter Trei
Yeah, that announcement just ran over the slashdot ticker. Someone posted the following insightful link subsequently: ftp://ftp.abit.com.tw/pub/download/fae/secureide_eng_v100.pdf Looks like that sucker only does key-truncated version of DES called DES-40. Right... did they say weeks? I'd say minutes, unless ABIT means [insert some impoverished 3rd world country] government supercomputers. It's snakeoil, move on, nothing to see here. Cheers, Ralf -- Ralf-P. Weinmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint: 2048/46C772078ACB58DEF6EBF8030CBF1724
