computerworld.com— So all disks in the future will be fully encrypted - great. So what happens if you lose your password or damage your drive?
Feb 3, 2009View in Crawl 4
Yes people forget their login passwords all the time. I was formerly a system admin for 10 years and if there is a password for it people will forget it.
I bet Drivesavers already have the capability, they did pioneer the HDD recovery industry after all.BTW, many Flash devices have but one memory chip, it would not take much to make ALL data unrecoverable, definitely less recoverable than the old spinning metal or ceramic disks.
Is the code open and published for public inspection? Can these drives be exported? Is the key 40-bit or more? My guess is if the government couldn't get into the data for search then they would be raising a stink right now about this is an issue of national security and how terrorist would be able to use this technology to carry out evil plans and beating the drum to get a law against it.
I'm sure you don't know what you are talking about ..A device that could check a billion billion (10^18) AES keys per second would require about 3*10^51 years to exhaust the 256-bit key space. Just to compare that number to something : The age of the universe is 13,000,000,000 (1.3*10^10) years, give or take a few, unless you are a Creationist, in that case science and math doesn't matter anyway and you will continue to believe whatever you want to believe .Now you try to calculate the energy required to DO that ...
bonerfideFeb 4, 2009
Yes people forget their login passwords all the time. I was formerly a system admin for 10 years and if there is a password for it people will forget it.
hurricaneFeb 6, 2009
I bet Drivesavers already have the capability, they did pioneer the HDD recovery industry after all.BTW, many Flash devices have but one memory chip, it would not take much to make ALL data unrecoverable, definitely less recoverable than the old spinning metal or ceramic disks.
microview2007Feb 6, 2009
Is the code open and published for public inspection? Can these drives be exported? Is the key 40-bit or more? My guess is if the government couldn't get into the data for search then they would be raising a stink right now about this is an issue of national security and how terrorist would be able to use this technology to carry out evil plans and beating the drum to get a law against it.
jclimber123May 4, 2009
I doubt it will "muddy" data recovery that much. check out the faq's at <a class="user" href="http://www.datarecoverygroup.com/">http://www.datarecoverygroup.com/</a>
winston84Aug 29, 2009
I'm sure you don't know what you are talking about ..A device that could check a billion billion (10^18) AES keys per second would require about 3*10^51 years to exhaust the 256-bit key space. Just to compare that number to something : The age of the universe is 13,000,000,000 (1.3*10^10) years, give or take a few, unless you are a Creationist, in that case science and math doesn't matter anyway and you will continue to believe whatever you want to believe .Now you try to calculate the energy required to DO that ...