{"id":687,"date":"2009-02-06T00:27:13","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T08:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cubist.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/?p=687"},"modified":"2009-02-06T00:27:13","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T08:27:13","slug":"current-event-new-hard-drive-encryption-standard-proposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/2009\/02\/06\/current-event-new-hard-drive-encryption-standard-proposed\/","title":{"rendered":"Current Event:  New Hard Drive Encryption Standard Proposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustedcomputinggroup.org\/\">Trusted Computing Group<\/a> has <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/hardware\/news\/2009\/01\/hard-drive-manufacturers-unveil-disk-encryption-standard.ars\">proposed a new standard<\/a> for self-encrypting hard drives.  Many current hard drives boast encryption features, but some provide little details on the encryption process, and there was previously no single standard among all manufacturers.  This new standard would bring greater interoperability between drives from different manufacturers, and its details are publicly available, in accordance with Kerckhoffs&#8217; principle.<\/p>\n<p>This could be seen as a good thing &#8211; many existing hardware-based encryption products likely get away with using insecure algorithms, and putting the details out in the open would prevent this from happening.  Many, however (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/02\/hard_drive_encr.html\">including the well-respected Bruce Schneier<\/a>), disagree on the basis that yet another standard would inevitably have flaws, and that existing software-based systems are good enough.  What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trusted Computing Group has proposed a new standard for self-encrypting hard drives. Many current hard drives boast encryption features, but some provide little details on the encryption process, and there was previously no single standard among all manufacturers. This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/2009\/02\/06\/current-event-new-hard-drive-encryption-standard-proposed\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1317,"href":"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions\/1317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}