On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 1:12 PM, Ken Dibble krdibble@stny.rr.com wrote:
The sole purpose of the thumb drive is to provide offsite backup for important files.
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Hardware Encryption
I took a visual look at the Corsair Flash Padlock drive. It's got dinky little flashing lights and tiny little buttons. I can just imagine what will happen when a user has to get into the drive by poking and punching tiny little buttons with their fingernails while the drive is inserted into the typical fragile USB slot. Not a winner... But are there other hardware encryption options that don't suffer from this or other flaws?
The Kingston Data Traveler series drives have hardware crypto, but they're unlocked using a small program stored on separate cleartext partition. They're not cheap however. so after I lost mine I switched to truecrypt/veracrypt.
Given your sole purpose, however, have you totally ruled out automating the backup routine and baking-in file-level crypto?
hth
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