IronKey USB Drive - Cool Gadget!

The Ironkey is by far one of the coolest flash drives I’ve ever seen. Looking at it doesn’t really give you the feeling of “coolest thing ever,” but remember, beauty is only skin deep. This military-grade drive is encrypted with the passwords stored in a separate hardware-encrypted area of the drive’s memory. It’s first locally encrypted with 256-bit AES with randomly generated keys encrypted with a SHA-256 hash. Then everything is encrypted again with 128-bit AES hardware encryption. If you don’t know what all of that stands for, it means that it’s going to be a bitch to hack. If someone is really determined, they could always pop the case off and access the memory chips. What about the old-fashioned method of just guessing someone’s password? That’s where it gets really fun. If you enter more than 10 incorrect passwords in a row, the encryption chip will actually self-destruct. That means no one’s getting into the memory, ever. Just don’t tell your friends that it’ll do this, or they’ll be eager to put that feature to the test.

IronKey USB Drive - Cool Gadget! [via: crunchgear]