Lock your USB Token

re: Lock your USB Token

Dima — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 12:21:20 GMT

Sorry if I'm beating up a dead horse or missed some

spec, but have you tried TrueCrypt? Let's me put two

volumes on a USB stick: one encrypted, the other not.

Then, puts itself on the unencrypted volume, st the

software will run from the stick, on any machine, so

I can mount the encrypted volume.

re: Lock your USB Token

George Wolf-ESW — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:23:23 GMT

I read Tom's post of December 22 and wanted to confirm his understanding of the Knox-IT program is correct. Knox-IT, manufactured for ExamSoft Worldwide utilizing ClevX technology, is a custom corporate B to B program enabling large volume users who have a need for secure, portable devices access to them direct from the manufacturer. That being said, ESW always welcomes the input of professionals regarding their opinion of the features and benefits Knox-IT is designed to provide. Knox-IT does offer a trial program whereby small quantities of the devices are made available for purchase for evaluation by qualified purchasers. Tom if you’d like more information please contact us via the Knox-IT web page.

re: Lock your USB Token

Tom Decaluwe — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 08:57:55 GMT

Well i was looking at the Knox-it secure sub stick but it seems they only sell to large volume customers. Anyone know where i might by just the odd few unites?

re: Lock your USB Token

Jeff Martin — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:15:29 GMT

Sony once sold USBs that used a fingerprint to unlock, part of their 'Puppy' series. There was a stand-alone Windows app that one could use to register fingerprints, manage multiple volumes, etc. on the device. But once set up it worked fine with Linux. I don't know what their status is now, last one I had was 5+ years ago with only 256 MB on it.

re: Lock your USB Token

Dale — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:23:12 GMT

Re. RSS feeds updating. Don't see that behaviour with the atom feed, here.

The Ironkey looks interesting, but is it like every other secure USB stick, which not only "requires software installed on your computer to access the encrypted volume" but requires Admin Rights to install it. Thus limiting the portability for non-admin users. If there is a work-around to that admin rights problem, I'd love to hear it.

re: Lock your USB Token

jesper — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:08:40 GMT

Michel, sorry about that, but I was unaware. I'll look into it.

re: Lock your USB Token

Alun Jones — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:36:25 GMT

One minor note - in Vista SP1, you can use the combination of USB stick and PIN, but only if you also use the TPM (Trusted Platform Module) chip to help protect your system.

I've asked several times for USB + PIN on their own, without TPM, but apparently this is "not significantly more secure". Besides, it doesn't help sell TPMs.

re: Lock your USB Token

Michel de Rooij — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:49:13 GMT

Jesper,

Each time you add another article or update, all date/time tags in previous posts change somehow. This is very annoying since I have subscribed to your RSS feed which gets "updated" old items :(