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There was quite a lot of talk two years ago about vulnerabilities discovered in hardware encryption on SSDs that allowed attackers to bypass the encryption and get to the data on them. I can find very little recent discussion on this, exce… Continue reading How safe is hardware encryption on newer SSDs? [closed]
I’m looking for a TCG-OPAL protocol stack software/firmware agent, to be working on the SSD side.
I found partial implementations of host-side TCG-OPAL. These are opening sessions and initiating the commands. I need the side that serves th… Continue reading TCG-OPAL protocol stack
I need to know if my motherboard is Opal 2.0 compatible.
I have asked the question to it’s manufacturer but he answers that he doesn’t know, claiming that the tests to determine the Opal 2.0 compatibility haven’t been done (and probably wo… Continue reading Opal 2.0 motherboard compatibility
I’d like to know whether I can realistically use hardware based full disk encryption with Linux, both at start-up after putting the computer to sleep.
Ideally I would like it to just work, regardless of what OS is running, a… Continue reading Is Opal-based full disk encryption fully working for Linux?
I am using a Samsung Evo 960 NVME SSD. I have encrypted the SSD using its built in hardware encryption features, which follow the tcg opal standard. If I understood correctly, the disk encrypts all data using AES-256. The key… Continue reading How is the DEK in a SED drive encrypted?
Instead of using software encryption, I’d like to take advantage of the SED OPAL 2.0 for my external M.2 SSD drive.
I’d like to have 2 GPT/MSDOS partitions and I’d like to lock only one in case someone steal or if I loose th… Continue reading SED w/ OPAL 2.0: Use cases with partial lock
How would I go about enabling Opal 2.0 on an opal-capable hard drive? I have Windows 10 and from what I know I need to install shadow MBR (How to enable OPAL SSD encryption on Windows without BitLocker?) but I am unsure how … Continue reading Enabling TCG Opal 2.0 on Opal capable SATA 3 drive
I understand TCG OPAL is the spiritual successor of ATA Security for hard drive encryption with SEDs. They claim there is support for biometrics etc, but how is it for the predecessor, ATA Security?
Is it just a 32 bytes ASC… Continue reading Does ATA security support or allow for 2FA?
I basically cannot find any credible information online as to how secure OPAL 2.0 drives are, and so I don’t really know how much, or in what cases, I can trust their encryption to keep my data safe if the drives get into the wrong hands.
… Continue reading How secure is OPAL 2.0?
I’ve ordered a Samsung SSD (850 PRO SATA) that supports TCG Opal 2.0.
At first I was planning on setting an HDD password (aka ATA password) via BIOS. But motherboard manufacturers don’t seem to specify whether this functionality is support… Continue reading Portability of SED supporting TCG Opal 2.0