Seven Myths About Storage Encryption

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Author(s)/Presenter(s):

Dmitry Oblukhov

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Presentation

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Abstract

The presentation is focused on clarifying popular misconceptions about self-encrypting drives collected for the first year of such products on the open market. 1. ATA security (BIOS password) is good enough 2. Software encryption works better with SSD. 3. Storage device has slow controllers and so has to use weaker algorithms 4. SED introduces a lot of latency 5. TCG Opal is Windows only 6. TCG storage encryption is intended to enforce DRM 7. Storage vendors will keep back doors for failure analysis

Learning Objectives

Architecture of the self-encrypting drives
Performance-related concerns
The role of self-encrypting drives in overall security system