Chambers wrote:
> Actually, that would be a pretty cool feature for a hard drive: an 
> external button that, when pressed, caused the drive to overwrite itself 
> with random data.

I've seen drive enclosures with a USB key that has an encryption key on 
it, so everything on the whole drive is automatically encrypted with the 
key.  I was thinking of getting one until someone actually analyzed it 
and figured out it was doing the equivalent of ROT-13 with the drive.

Advertised as using AES for encryption, it just used AES for generating 
the key, said key then being xored identically with every sector read or 
written on the disk. Feh.

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
  Helpful housekeeping hints:
   Check your feather pillows for holes
    before putting them in the washing machine.

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