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DTA sedutil Self encrypting drive software

9 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 1 story, 8 comments · first 2015-12-01 · latest 2023-01-27

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  1. …with SATA SSD's to set a device key, which then encrypts everything on the drive at full speed: https://github.com/Drive-Trust-Alliance/sedutil The drives are actually already doing this, it's just that the key is set to 0's. I can imagine…
    comment by dijit · 2023-01-27 · in Apple’s Mac security is so good, it’s sending used M1 MacBooks to the scrap heap
  2. …impossible to tell if your data is still on the drive even if you've completely overwritten it. [0] https://github.com/Drive-Trust-Alliance/sedutil [1] https://github.com/Drive-Trust-Alliance/sedutil/wiki/PSID-Re...
    comment by theandrewbailey · 2020-06-09 · in Ask HN: How to securely and completely wipe my HDD and SSD?
  3. …out the sedutil project on Github it's an opensource implementation of software to manage SED's https://github.com/Drive-Trust-Alliance/sedutil
    comment by pmorici · 2018-04-07 · in Western Digital WD Black 3D NAND SSD Review
  4. I'm referencing work by the Drive Trust Alliance https://github.com/Drive-Trust-Alliance/sedutil/wiki
    comment by dijit · 2017-08-17 · in Rowhammer-like attack on SSDs can provide root privileges to attacker
  5. https://github.com/Drive-Trust-Alliance/sedutil That's if you trust TCG and OPAL, and have an OPAL drive. Windows will use OPAL automatically if available for at least Pro and Enterprise and Server products, I'm not sure about Home. Apple…
    comment by cmurf · 2017-06-01 · in A laptop ban would be a disruptive privacy risk
  6. …to write encrypted data to the media 100% of the time. Seems that you can rekey the drive easily: https://github.com/Drive-Trust-Alliance/sedutil/wiki/PSID-Re...
    comment by theandrewbailey · 2017-03-16 · in How to securely recycle or dispose of your SSD
  7. …level how SSD-based encryption works. The open-source msed tool has now been renamed to sedutil see https://github.com/Drive-Trust-Alliance/sedutil but it still works the same way. It would still be possible for a sufficiently advanced…
    comment by cpbotha · 2017-03-13 · in Laptop security: Apple vs. [Insert name here]
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    Take Advantage of Your SSD/HDD's Self-Encrypting Capabilites
    story by slicktux · 2016-04-10 · 0 comments
  9. …is noise. You do need access to the printed label on the drive itself to do it (for the PSID). https://github.com/Drive-Trust-Alliance/sedutil/blob/master/...
    comment by theandrewbailey · 2015-12-01 · in dd – Destroyer of Disks (2008)