Thank you Vacationhouse and Steven for
covering this...I hope!
The Princeton findings prompted Steven Sprague, CEO of Wave Systems, which makes management software for hardware security devices, to point out that such attacks on laptops would be preventable via hardware-based encryption offerings.
"The advantage of hardware-based encryption is that all the encryption, key management and access control all happen inside the chip so there is no software risk to reverse engineer the encryption silicon," Sprague said. The encryption key never leaves the hardware-based encryption disk in this case, he said.
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