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Old 18th February 2007, 17:30   #302  |  Link
arnezami
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Originally Posted by KenD00 View Post
I think you need two things to do that:

1.) A Host Certificate. This can be revoked so it won't work forever. But until they enforce bus encryption everyone can get a new one

Because of that

you need

2.) A Host Private Key. This is hard to get because it does not travel on the bus. But, correct me if i'm wrong, i don't see a mechanism for revoking a Private Key, so this will work forever?

The rest is sending the right commands to the drive.

Basicly the Certificate "belongs to" the Private Key so if one is revoked the other is too. And you are right the Private Key is the hardest to get .
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