{"id":1215,"date":"2010-01-06T16:55:11","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T21:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/?p=1215"},"modified":"2022-03-16T15:58:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T20:58:00","slug":"encryption-cracked-on-usb-drives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/encryption-cracked-on-usb-drives\/","title":{"rendered":"Encryption cracked on USB drives"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A word of warning to those of you who rely on hardware-based encrypted USB flash drives. Security firm <a href=\"http:\/\/www.syss.de\/\">SySS<\/a> has reportedly cracked the AES 256-bit hardware-based encryption used on flash drives manufactured by Kingston, SanDisk and Verbatim.<\/p>\n<p>The crack relies on a weakness so astoundingly bone-headed that it\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;s almost hard to believe. While the data on the drive is indeed encrypted using 256-bit crypto, there\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;s a huge failure in the authentication program. When the correct password is supplied by the user, the authentication program always send the same character string to the drive to decrypt the data no matter what the password used. What\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;s also staggering is that this character string is the same for Kingston, SanDisk and Verbatim USB flash drives.<\/p>\n<p>Cracking the drives is therefore quite an easy process. The folks at SySS wrote an application that always sent the appropriate string to the drive, irrespective of the password entered, and therefore gained immediate access to all the data on the drive.<\/p>\n<p>(from Encryption busted on NIST-certified Kingston, SanDisk and Verbatim USB flash drives, ZDNet)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A word of warning to those of you who rely on hardware-based encrypted USB flash drives. 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