Crypteks USB Drive – World’s Most Secure USB Drive?

With the increasing use of portable data devices, keeping your data private has become quite hard.  I often forget and leave my USB at the office or at friends’ houses, fortunately I don’t have much private data on my USB drive but a lot of people do.  For those people the Crypteks USB Drive is the perfect solution.

Crypteks USB Storage Device

The Crypteks USB Drive comes in a very stylish cylinder shaped package that not only provides digital security but also physical security.  The physical security is provided by a five ring combination lock, each ring contains 26 letters and one symbol for a total of 14,348,907 combinations.  If someone got their hands on your Crypteks USB drive, it’ll take them quite a long time to just open the case and get to the USB stick which protects your data with another layer of security in the form of a 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption, which is a U.S. approved standard for up to “Top-Secret” data encryption.

The Crypteks USB Drive is made out of anodized solid-aluminum and measures approximately 3.1” in length and 1.1” in height.  The project is currently in the concept stage at kickstarter.com, the initial goal for pledges was $12,000 but that number has already been surpassed and currently stands at over $33,000.  You can pre-order a Crypteks USB drive starting at $130 for 8 GB and $160 for 16 GB model at kickstarter.com.

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10 comments on “Crypteks USB Drive – World’s Most Secure USB Drive?”

  1. Now tell me, what if someone is watching while unlocked and plugged to my computer? hum, maybe have to change the code each time…
    No?

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  2. Enter password combination,
    remove the cylinder thingy,
    plug in USB,
    enter password,
    do whatever you want,
    put the cylinder thingy back,
    ohhh shit, there’s supposed to be 5 of them, where the *uck did the other one go?,
    look under table,
    look beside computer,
    look under chair,
    can’t find it…
    oh well… it’s screwed.

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