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I'd like to take advantage of the hardware AES encryption present in many SSD implementations. But I have difficulty believing it's not back-doored. I'm not d

I'd like to take advantage of the hardware AES encryption present in many SSD implementations. But I have difficulty believing it's not back-doored. I'm not doing anything nefarious, but these days law enforcement seems ever more determined to gin up evidence and argument to suit their purpose. Also, if they can use the back door, how long until a malicious third party can?

DanBC 12y ago
Let's hope the drive manufacturers have implemented the encryption correctly. Here's an example where makers of external drive enclosures didn't: Enclosed but not encrypted: http://www.h-online.com/security/features/Enclosed-but-not-encrypted-746199.html http://www.h-online.com/security/features/Enclosed-but-not-e...