Some useful information in this article.
http://crashed-hard-drive.com/western-digital-mybook-encryption/
Seems like I need a new ‘controller bridge’ with the correct data encryption. This is getting complicated!
The best way to have the data recovered is to repair the bridge controller. Each controller version uses it’s own firmware revision, and this must correspond with the firmware that was used to encrypt the data initially. You can buy 10 different drives, take them apart and hope that one of them works, but it will be difficult to get a match right off the bat that will decrypt the data.
