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Are there any use-case for those SSDs with hardware-based encryption? Is it a good idea to use one of those over software-based encryption? (self.privacy)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by throwawayacc0430 to c/[email protected]

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I mean those ones with a pin entry keypad/touchscreen built onto the device and has limits on number of attempts.

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[–] Steamymoomilk 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

From going do the rabbit hole with recently learning freebsd. Is that every good brand nvme ssd has a default password for hardware encryption and you can use certain software to change the default encryption key. However basically everywhere i read online said that hardware based encryption is rarely/never implemented correctly. So an attacker still can most likey retrieve data from the ssd, so basically software encryption will always be more bulletproof. Because people can steal your ssd or clone it and all data on it is useless without a header and key. If using full disk encryption, So basically software based encryption will always be alot harder to break than hardware encryption.