Disk encryption is absolute magic to most non-mathematicians. And like any complex technology, it leads to uncomfortable questions. Does encrypting a disk make it less likely that data can be ...
Linux admins have been urged to patch a high-risk, full-disk encryption (FDE) vulnerability impacting Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) encryption software and its crytpsetup programme, which could allow ...
Cracking encryption is a topic of perpetual fascination. Congress has made several efforts to legislate it. The FBI tried to force Apple to do it. New messaging apps constantly debut with claims about ...
This Schneier post refers to this paper which notes many huge flaws in hardware based full disk encryption of SSDs. For my Samsung 840 EVO, the chief flaw is that the drive ships from the factory with ...
An SED is a self-encrypting hard drive with a circuit built into the disk drive controller chip that encrypts all data to the magnetic media and decrypts all the data from the media automatically. All ...
As happens from time to time, somebody has spotted a feature in Windows 10 that isn’t actually new and has largely denounced it as a great privacy violation. The Intercept has written that if you have ...
On Monday, security firm Sophos unveiled a new version of its enterprise-class SafeGuard disk encryption app for the Mac. Simply called SafeGuard Disk Encryption for Mac, Sophos’s new app is targeted ...