gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » secure usb http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:51:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Flash Memory with Iris identificationhttp://www.ghacks.net/2007/08/17/flash-memory-with-iris-identification/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/08/17/flash-memory-with-iris-identification/#comments Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:14:32 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/2007/08/17/flash-memory-with-iris-identification/ Everyone is able to access data on normal usb sticks unless the data on the stick is encrypted with softwares like True Crypt for instance. Software based encryptions however require that the software to decrypt the data is actually installed on the system. It would not be possible to decrypt the data. The user also needs to know the password to decrypt the data, if the password is lost the data is lost unless a weak password was chosen during the encryption process.

Rehoboth Tech introduced another method of protecting data on an USB stick by encrypting it with a 256-bit Iris encryption template and place for 20 of those templates on each stick. The Iris scanner is implemented in the USB device which means that no additional software has to be installed to decrypt the data on the stick. There is obviously no password as well.

Devices come with capacities of 1,2 and 4 Gigabytes and a hard drive version was announced as well. Rehoboth Tech state that their Irikon Flash Memory device has a False Reject Rate (FRR) of 0.1% and a False Acceptance Rate (FAR) of 0.000083%.

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