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Abit's SecureIDE
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mads Rasmussen)
Thu Aug 21 21:46:19 2003
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Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 13:14:31 -0300
From: "Mads Rasmussen" <mads@opencs.com.br>
To: <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
There seems to be a new interesting product from Abit, a motherboard
manufacturer.=20
"SecureIDE", supposed to encrypt information between the CPU and the IDE
HD.
Have a look at
http://www.abit.com.tw/abitweb/webjsp/english/SecureIDE.htm
The idea is simple:
CPU <--> Chip <--> HD
And the concept seems to be reasonable at first eyesight, skipping the
stuff like the quote below, which gives me a snakeoil feeling.
"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 forever."=20
There is a datasheet that tells it all
ftp://ftp.abit.com.tw/pub/download/fae/secureide_eng_v100.pdf
I quote:
"40-bit DES (US Data Encryption Standard) is adequate for general users"
How can they make something, seemingly good and then blow it by using
only 40-bit DES keys? It cannot be export controls can it?
Well they did only say weeks in the first quote above :o)
Mads Rasmussen
www.opencs.com.br
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