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Re: Enclosed, but not encrypted

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This is shocking, they advertise it as using AES 128, actually it only uses a  
trivial 'proprietry' Vigenere cypher. From the TFA:

>The following crypto hard drive enclosures also use the IM7206 and are  
>therefore likely to be vulnerable to the same attacks:
>STYSEN E08 RFID Security Mobile Disk
>DoTop RFID SATA to USB storage
>Agestar RFID Security External Enclosure SRB2A
>Silverstone Treasure TS01B
>Sharkoon Swift-Case Securita
>DIGITTRADE RFID Security Hard Disk
>These manufacturers have been alerted, but we have yet to receive replies  
>from them.
This is exactly what Bruce Schneier described as Snake Oil [1]



[1] https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-9902.html
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Enclosed, but not encrypted Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-09-22 01:58 +0000
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      Re: Enclosed, but not encrypted Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-09-22 16:23 +0000
  Re: Enclosed, but not encrypted Peter Mc Donough <mcd-mail-lists@gmx.net> - 2014-09-22 13:24 +0200
    Re: Enclosed, but not encrypted "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-09-22 12:17 -0500

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