On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 1:12 PM, Ken Dibble <[email protected]> wrote:
> The sole purpose of the thumb drive is to provide offsite backup for > important files. [...] > Hardware Encryption > > I took a visual look at the Corsair Flash Padlock drive. It's got dinky > little flashing lights and tiny little buttons. I can just imagine what will > happen when a user has to get into the drive by poking and punching tiny > little buttons with their fingernails while the drive is inserted into the > typical fragile USB slot. Not a winner... But are there other hardware > encryption options that don't suffer from this or other flaws? > The Kingston Data Traveler series drives have hardware crypto, but they're unlocked using a small program stored on separate cleartext partition. They're not cheap however. so after I lost mine I switched to truecrypt/veracrypt. Given your sole purpose, however, have you totally ruled out automating the backup routine and baking-in file-level crypto? hth dt -- Dave Thayer Denver, CO _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CAAo+qoUz4rVRuJ+QKEDFrWVv6Kp=kot4jmqtzl9dwwgt6mh...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
