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What are your thoughts on USB storage drives that have keypad encryption? (leminal.space)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by CorrodedCranium@leminal.space to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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It seems like the benefits are having the device lock/wipe itself after a set amount of attempts in case of a brute force attack and not having to run software to decrypt the drive on the device you plug it into.

I included a picture of the IronKey Keypad 200 but that's just because it's the first result that came up when I was looking for an example. There seem to be a few other manufacturers and models out there and they probably have different features.

I am curious what do you think of them? Do you think they are useful? Do you find it more a novelty?

It was an ExplainingComputers video titled Very Useful Small Computing Things that made me think of them.

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[–] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Can you think of some notable examples of hardware based encryption failing?

Besides the actual device dying I mean

[–] jwt@programming.dev 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=beMtNM7nwfQ&t=35m

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[–] Lojcs@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There's no password involved in that demo

[–] jwt@programming.dev 6 points 9 months ago

That wasn't part of the assignment. ;)