Secure IDE?

[Ralf-P. Weinmann]

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

40-bit DES in ECB mode sounds even more great. It's them
Enovatech guys again.

See here:
http://archives.abditum.com/cypherpunks/C-punks20030519/0079.html

Cheers,
Ralf

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