throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-211 days agoAre there any use-case for those SSDs with hardware-based encryption? Is it a good idea to use one of those over software-based encryption?message-squaremessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareAre there any use-case for those SSDs with hardware-based encryption? Is it a good idea to use one of those over software-based encryption?throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-211 days agomessage-square25fedilinkfile-text
I mean those ones with a pin entry keypad/touchscreen built onto the device and has limits on number of attempts.
minus-squareHiddenLayer555@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-210 days agoI don’t trust any of those SSDs not to have backdoors, it’s not even a hypothetical, we know that hardware encryption on SSDs have been broken in the past. At least with software encryption you can audit the code.
minus-squareutopiah@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 days agoWhat about https://certification.oshwa.org/de000007.html then? Audits like https://www.nitrokey.com/news/2015/nitrokey-storage-got-great-results-3rd-party-security-audit have been done and you could run your own.
I don’t trust any of those SSDs not to have backdoors, it’s not even a hypothetical, we know that hardware encryption on SSDs have been broken in the past. At least with software encryption you can audit the code.
What about https://certification.oshwa.org/de000007.html then? Audits like https://www.nitrokey.com/news/2015/nitrokey-storage-got-great-results-3rd-party-security-audit have been done and you could run your own.