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BitLocker no longer leverages SED by default due to vulnerabilities in drive manufactures firmware as of Sept 2019. > Changes the default setting for BitLocker
by p_ing 2y ago
BitLocker no longer leverages SED by default due to vulnerabilities in drive manufactures firmware as of Sept 2019.
> Changes the default setting for BitLocker when encrypting a self-encrypting hard drive. Now, the default is to use software encryption for newly encrypted drives. For existing drives, the type of encryption will not change.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/september-24-2019-kb4516071-os-build-16299-1420-5648029d-8d1c-ed9e-b72c-63c6fee30bff https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/september-24-2019-...
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-12037 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-12037
- MoreMoore 2y agoHoly crap. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1059435094421712896.html https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1059435094421712896.html This is amazing. > The encrypted SSD has a master password that’s set to “” HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18382975 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18382975 Original paper here: https://cs.ru.nl/~cmeijer/publications/Self_Encrypting_Deception_Weaknesses_in_the_Encryption_of_Solid_State_Drives.pdf https://cs.ru.nl/~cmeijer/publications/Self_Encrypting_Decep...
- baybal2 2y ago[dead]