Paper Title: Flashy Crypto: A Storage OEM View

Paper Abstract: The TCG Self-Encrypting Drive core specifications provide optional features that help define how to solve the problem of losing the credentials to establish or transfer cryptocurrency ownership or NFT ownership. The basic method is to allow secure storage and tunneled distributed synchronization across separate self-protecting flash and hard drives. So, losing one USB drive in the swarm of diverse self-protecting storage devices, for example, is not catastrophic. This is whether any stipulated subset of the storage device security swarm got accidentally thrown away or, even, was stolen. The operations would be universal across cryptocurrencies and types of NFT and would protect in each self-protecting storage device all the additional evidence and history surrounding the basic authentication and key operations no matter the computing environment in which these devices are operated out of. So, for example, the NFT content is, itself, protected from unauthorized viewing.

Paper Author: Robert Thibadeau, Chairman/CEO, Drive Trust Alliance

Author Bio: Robert Thibadeau, Ph.D. was one of the founding directors of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and the original and primary inventor of the TCG Self-Encrypting Drives technology now in use globally. He retired from CMU and is now an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at CMU, and runs Bright Plaza, Inc., as a arbitrarily innovative project-based R&D company in Internet Services and Devices.