Another cryptex flash drive with serious protection

On Habré already somehow laid out the news about an interesting flash drive with mechanical protection like "cryptex". Cryptexes are generally popular, both among authors of various kinds of detectives and historical novels, as well as among fans of the work of these authors, as well as among geeks. So, the other day there was information about a flash drive of a new type, which is called Crypteks.

The device itself consists of two parts - the cryptex and the flash drive itself. Cryptex has five rings, each of which contains 26 letters of the Latin alphabet and a "space" ( added ). Thus, we get 14,348,907 possible combinations, which can be considered a rather serious protection of information. Of course, inside there are no bubbles with acid, which corrode the contents of the cryptex with the wrong combination.
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However, protected and flash drive, already programmatically. The manufacturer has built a 256-bit AES encryption system, with the ability to set a password. However, you can not reset the password, so you should be very careful when working with this feature. The cryptex code is set when the flash drive is removed. If you forget this code, the manufacturer promises to solve the problem, but only if the buyer sends the device to the manufacturer.

Body material - anodized aluminum. There are different device configurations that depend directly on the volume of the flash drive. In total, the manufacturer offers three options - with 4, 8 and 16 GB. The read / write speed is 24 Mb / s and 10 Mb / s, respectively. Pre-order flash drive cryptex can be done on the well-known resource Kickstarter, from which "grow legs" in many modern devices of small manufacturers.

Via DVICE