When it comes to security, few organizations are more stringent than federal governments. Which is why a federal seal of approval is never a bad thing to have on a storage device. Say hello to Kingston's latest DataTraveler flash drive: the BlackBox. Not only is this little guy waterproof, it also meets the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) set by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Communications Security Establishment of the Government of Canada. What does that mean? It means that the pint-sized device sports "256-bit hardware-based AES encryption via a dedicated processor which automatically encrypts and decrypts data on the fly" and will automatically lock down if an incorrect password is entered 10 consecutive times. Not too shabby, eh? Available now in sizes ranging from 2GB to 8GB and starting at $165.
For more on the Blackbox:
- see this Engadget article [1]
Links:
[1] http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/16/kingstons-datatraveler-blackbox-usb-drives-meet-federal-securit/