Wikileak documents show Governments couldn`t penetrate Comodo Internet Security

Discussion in 'privacy technology' started by blacknight, Nov 28, 2014.

  1. luciddream

    luciddream Registered Member

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    I brought up SSD's in another section only considering them for my home PC here to make it quieter and more responsive. But now you're giving me all sorts of other ideas for their use regarding my mobile rig. I've been experimenting with hooking it up to another... apparatus let's just say for a perimeter FW using pfSense... and utilizing your guide at iVPN to create a nested chain. And I can see them being of use for this application. All in all not something so small you'd lug around with you into a coffee shop, but it fits in the back of a van just fine ; )

    A question though: I noticed the Samsung Pro you recommended to me had hardware encryption on it. I was toying around with the idea of using a hardware encrypted USB stick to put everything on on the Macbook... no on physical drive needed. But it would be slow. However this stick, like many, would reformat itself after the incorrect password is entered a set number of times (I set it to 6). Are any SSD's created this way? If so, could you steer me towards one? That would be... quite handy. With the type of bay you directed me to in that other thread it'd be about as easy to remove them in & out as a USB stick. I could use them for both applications... all 3 actually, including my home PC.
     
  2. mirimir

    mirimir Registered Member

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    Hardware FDE is confusing and problematic, to me anyway :(

    As I understand it, the old hardware FDE approach "secured" drive decryption using the BIOS password. That's easily hackable, I gather. The new hardware FDE approach (TCG's Opal, which the Samsung 840 Pro, Crucial M500, etc use) are far more secure, but necessary management software is available only for Windows. As far as I know, there's nothing available for Linux or OSX :(

    http://www.trustedcomputinggroup.or...uestions_and_answers_on_selfencrypting_drives
    http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1243475
    http://apple.stackexchange.com/ques...-based-full-disk-encryption-possible-on-a-mac

    Edit: Mongo doesn't trust Samsung's Opal implementation. Good read, though :thumb:

    http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware...amsung-840-evo-ssd-full-drive-encryption.html
     
    Last edited: Dec 11, 2014
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