[ale] Encrypted filesystem on netbook

[Greg Freemyer]

Jim,

We just brought in a Edge DiskGo Guardian thumb to test.  (testing
just started hours ago.)

http://www.edgetechcorp.com/usb-flash-drives/guardian-secure-flash-drive.asp

About half the price of the IronKey.  ($100 / 16GB)

We mostly care about Windows, so we are testing it there right now.
Good performance for large files.  (40GB / hr write speed).   Horrible
performance for small files.  (less than 2GB / hr write speed.)

I don't know if it has Linux support at all, so it may be useless to you.

Greg

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ironkey is my hardware ideal. I'm looking at a way to replicate that
> functionality so it can work with COTS usb drives.
>
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 7:26 AM, George Allen <glallen01 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >> Jim Kinney wrote:
>> >> The bit I don't have is how to set up the USB so a brute force attempt
>> >> will cause a secure wipe.
>>
>> I missed the previous parts of this thread, but this is exactly what
>> IRONKEY usb drives are setup to do in hardware:
>> http://www.ironkey.com/
>>
>> After a certain number of failed PIN attempts, the drive erases the
>> private keys, erases the data, and then tells the FGPGA containing the
>> keys and encryption side to wipe itself basically. So it's a hardware
>> self-destruct. They embed the whole think in metal and epoxy, and
>> supposedly the self-destruct can be triggered by either failed PIN
>> attempts - or physical tampering attempts - so that you can't even get
>> the data with a j-tag.
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