Crypto drives locked with internal key

**Glaswegian** · 04-30-2008, 11:47 AM

A UK storage security company has come up with an encryption-based hard drive that can be slotted into any laptop without additional hardware, software upgrades or BIOS modifications.

Stonewood’s new Eclypt drive, a follow-up to the company’s specialist Flagstone series, comes in either internal or external USB format, both of which transparently encrypt all data to and from the drive independent of the OS.

Using AES-256 encryption, the drive is designed to be fitted and forgotten about with minimal user key management. Unlike the full disk encryption design of rival drives on the market, the Eclypt is built around the idea that many people – up to 128 per drive - can use and access the same laptop, all with different keys. These can be stored on a token such as a USB flash drive, but for security reasons are held internally on the drive’s printed circuit board (PCB) and not on the drive itself.

http://www.techworld.com/security/ne...S&NewsID=12116

04-30-2008, 11:47 AM	#1 (permalink)
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