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SSDs with USABLE built-in encryption
- no_protocol 10y ago*usable, also (2012) > After two unsuccessful attempts getting a clear answer on the details of the Intel 520 encryption directly from Intel support This sounds like a nightmare. What's the trust model here?
- mrmattyboy 10y agoHah, thank you for the correction - too early in the morning :)
- cpbotha 10y agoAuthor of the post reporting for duty! That was written before TCG Opal arrived and greatly improved the situation. In any case, the post turned out to be a meeting point for SSD full disk encryption fans, so there's a whole lot of great discussion in the comments. I did write a follow-up post in 2015 on getting TCG Opal working with your SSD using the open source MSED: https://vxlabs.com/2015/02/11/use-the-hardware-based-full-disk-encryption-your-tcg-opal-ssd-with-msed/ https://vxlabs.com/2015/02/11/use-the-hardware-based-full-di... (the author of MSED was super-helpful in the comments, which turned out to be an informal kind of msed helpdesk)