The Always-Encrypted Firewire Hard Drive

Posted by timothy on Saturday February 1, 2003 @07:20AM from the only-terrorists dept.

ducman points to the announcement of an encrypted hard drive running on the MacNN website. The drive features a DES 64-bit/ 40bit key strength and "is intended for use by banks, insurance providers, government agencies, and those individuals with sensitive digital intellectual property. It supports the IEEE 1394a connectivity standard, in addition to USB 1.1 and 2.0. It offers data transfer rates over FireWire 400 of 100, 200, or 400 Mbps. The SuperGuard is expected to be available February 7." Sounds great -- but the USB key stuck in the back looks like a likely point of failure.

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first post! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-01 07:28 · Score: 0, Redundant

40-bit is worse than a joke. This product is worthless.
wern't 40-bit keys obsolete by the_2nd_coming · 2003-02-01 07:49 · Score: 0, Redundant

back in 93?

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Already being done?and with better encryption, too by scrod · 2003-02-01 08:48 · Score: 1, Redundant

WiebeTech is going to do the exact same thing, only with AES instead. http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/1/6/234015/4753