STORAGE DEVICE INCLUDING PROTECTED AREA AND DATA WRITE METHOD THEREOF

A method of writing data in a replay protected memory block (RPMB) area of a storage device in response to a request of a host device includes receiving a write request, including a message authentication code, data, and a bitmap index, from the host device and verifying the write request based on the message authentication code and the bitmap index. The verifying the write request may include calculating a message authentication code based on data and a bitmap index received from the host device, comparing a message authentication code, calculated in the storage device, with the message authentication code of the write request, and comparing the bitmap index of the write request with bitmap indexes, stored in the storage device, to check whether a replay attack has been made.