Hackers fail to break into VIA’s StrongBox

With $5,000 on the line, hackers unable to crack the thick armor protecting VIA’s StrongBox. The application uses a security cocktail of hardware and software based encryption to secure user data.

The Taiwanese microprocessor vendor offered a $5,000 prize to any hacker that could break into StrongBox, a secure virtual hard drive of up to 40GB designed to protect data from computer intruders. Announced on Tuesday, the application is made using a combination of hardware-based SHA-1 and 256-bit AES encryption.

This doesn’t really surprise me.. it usually takes a while to break something like this, not a few days. Either way, it’s still cool. Source: AnandTech