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.
