BitLocker no longer leverages SED by default due to vulnerabilities in drive manufactures firmware as of Sept 2019.
> Changes the default setting for BitLocker when encrypting a self-encrypting hard drive. Now, the default is to use software encryption for newly encrypted drives. For existing drives, the type of encryption will not change.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1059435094421712896.html
This is amazing.
> The encrypted SSD has a master password that’s set to “”
HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18382975
Original paper here: https://cs.ru.nl/~cmeijer/publications/Self_Encrypting_Decep...