The time taken will raise exponentially with the increase in each alphabet or special character. PASSPHRASES made in this manner are difficult to crack with brute force attacks or with any other password cracking option available as on date. Now, let us assume that 88 is your year of birth. Next time when you select a password.think about a word. It is really hard to lose all your valuable data just because you dont remember a silly password. After you have formatted the Hard Disk, you can start dumping whatever data it is that you find crucial again into your freshly reformatted WD Passport. Once you use the Erase Tool, whatever data that was there in the HDD till now will be gone forever. One can reformat the hard disk with the Erase option available in the WD Unlock Tool. The reason is that there is hardware level encryption in the WD Passport.The Only solution left is that you will have to forget about what was there in the hard disk if you forgot your password and start afresh. Not even the customer care can offer a solution.
The WD Security password protection is a 256-bit AES encryption system. The problem with WD Password is that you cannot retrieve the password once it is forgotten. Regardless of the user-password, KEK or DEK.If you had used a password to secure your WD Password, you did it probably because you didnt want anyone else to see the contents which you had stored inside the WD Passport External HDD. After resetting the ATA password, we had complete access to the decrypted user data, as the SATA chip decrypted on-the-fly. We located the location of the ATA password and some (unknown) connection to the AES password in different SAs from the internal 2.5" SATA HDD. Nevertheless, this is not an off-the-self solution offered, so we worked our way through to the AES protection. If the user does not supply a password, the user data is inaccessible when connecting directly to the SATA ports.įinally, we were able to bypass the ATA password with commercial tools. The bridge is therefore doing user authentication by setting an ATA password, once the user generates his password. The data access is restricted by a set ATA-password in the SATA-HDD. We tried to connect the SATA HDD directly over the PCB for accessing a raw sector, but did not succeed.
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