MacBook hardware encryption?
Under Hardware Security Features in the iOS_Security_May12 white paper by apple, it says "Every iOS device has a dedicated AES 256 crypto engine built into the DMA path between the flash storage and main system memory, ... ," and "Along with the AES engine, SHA-1 is implemented in hardware, further reducing cryptographic operation overhead." The white paper goes into detailed information compared to other Apple papers, and the provided security information is very impressive to this retired engineer (with experience implementing cryptographic systems for our government).
Now to the question posed in the title: Does anyone have first-hand knowledge as to whether Apple implemented a "dedicated AES cyptographic engine" between DMA and flash storage on the MacBook Retina Pro and/or MacBook Air?
Has anyone found such references to support that they use such a sophistocated design in the new flash memory MacBooks?
I'd like to purchase a fully loaded MacBook Pro Retina if they do. If I can't out the answer to this question (or hardware is not implemented), I've decided to stick with a magnetic drive that can be wiped.
