Kingston Launches Ultra-Secure USB Flash Drive

Terry Olaes

Terry Olaes

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Press release:
Kingston Digital, Inc., the Flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, announced the release of the DataTraveler® 5000 USB Flash drive. The DataTraveler 5000 is FIPS 140-2 Level 2 certified with Level 3 pending, and features 256-bit AES hardware-based encryption. It uses XTS cipher mode and also uses elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) algorithms to meet Suite B standards approved by the U.S. government.
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It was in the linked press release:

Kingston DataTraveler 5000 USB Flash Drive
Part Number Capacity and Features MSRP (U.S. only).
DT5000/2GB DataTraveler 5000 2GB $ 111.00
DT5000/4GB DataTraveler 5000 4GB $ 185.00
DT5000/8GB DataTraveler 5000 8GB $ 231.00
DT5000/16GB DataTraveler 5000 16GB $ 400.00
 
Yossarian22 said:
Is this slated to compete with the IronKey? :confused:
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I'd assume so but, it doesn't appear that this has the sweet self-defense mechanism the Ironkey does :p. Supposedly, the iron key fries major parts of the encryption circuitry if you enter an incorrect password too many times in a row.
 
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