AES 256-bit Self-Encrypting Drives - All you Need to Know as Fast As Possible
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·2013-05-07
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whether it's for personal files or for business security there are lots of
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reasons why you would want the data on a drive to be secure we're going to tell
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you everything you need to know about self encrypting AES 256-bit drives as
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fast as possible so first of all how secure is aes256 encryption well it
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takes your plain text password and resc scrambles it 14 times to create an
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encrypted password that would take the equivalent of millions of years to break
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through using a top five 00 supercomputer with no pre-existing
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knowledge of any part of your password
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one of the tricky things can be making sure that your platform supports self-
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encrypting drives so many business notebooks for example do but the only
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way to know for sure is check with your Hardware manufacturer and make sure that
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it's supported once you know it's supported all you have to do is take a
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self- encrypting Drive plug it into your system set up the disk password or hard
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drive password and now all that information is stored on the drive
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itself so even if someone takes the drive out of your computer puts it into
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a separate computer and tries to read any data off of it they must enter the
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password in order to get access to your files as with any password creation
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process make sure you're using a mixture of Alpha Characters numeric characters
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and special characters and don't use anything obvious like a birthday or a
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spouse's name or anything that someone with pre-existing knowledge of you would
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be likely to guess so the advantage of a self- encrypting Drive is it's at the
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the BIOS level you can't get into the dis at all without the encryption
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password however there are software-based options if you don't have
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a platform that supports the encrypted drive or you don't have an encrypted
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Drive using programs such as true Crypt
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