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NightEvil
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WD MyPassport

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‎05-29-2012 08:59 PM

Dear Members,

Is there anyone know about WD Mypassport  password protection is running on Hardware  or Software base?

If running on hardware, do it running on 128-AES or 256-AES? Any link that can i refer to calify my query?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

 

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‎05-30-2012 12:20 PM - edited ‎05-30-2012 12:23 PM

password protection is part of the driver, PCB (or the bringe board on myBooks) of the drive does actual on-the-fly encryption and it is

256 bit. here is a good write up on this http://computersciencelabs.blogspot.ca/2010/11/256-bit-based-hardware-encryption-on-wd.html

 

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‎05-30-2012 07:20 PM

Thanks for the reply.

 

If WD have official posting this information, appreciate that there will have anyone able to provide the WD link instead of others.

 

Once again thanks for the sharing information. is useful.

 

 

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