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Protect any hard drive with the DataLocker Drive Enclosure
Maybe you're a spy or you've got schematics for the next hot gadget locked away on your hard drive, but either way you're going to want to lock your files down. That's where the DataLocker Drive Enclosure comes in.
The DataLocker is an enclosure so you'll have to supply your own 2.5" SATA hard drive, which is the standard size drive for laptops. After that, you create a 6-digit passcode that you punch in on the unit's backlit touchscreen. Tap it again to lock that sensitive info down. It's powered and enabled by your USB port. Plug it in, put in your code and access your data.
Security doesn't come cheap, though. Get ready to drop $100 — you can find your average 2.5" enclosure for $10.
By Flow at 12:29 PM ON 05/14/08
What stops me from popping open that sucker and using a standard enclosure to 'borrow' the data?
By FO SHIZZLE at 8:48 PM ON 05/14/08
I've seen external cases like this before. Usually the case encrypts the data on the drive that can only be decrypted inside that case ... which was one of the complaints I read about that original case ... what happens when you loose the key? You're SOL... :)
By bowz at 7:30 AM ON 05/15/08
6 digits ??? even if its encrypted you can brute force that in no time.
By ReallyEvilCanine at 7:34 AM ON 05/15/08
I can't find anything which says that the device actually encrypts data. All it does is prevent reading from the drive inside the housing. Pull the drive, drop in standard enclosure, done.
By coldtobi at 8:00 AM ON 05/15/08
6 digit???
Insecure by design! Or just a "Placebo"?
Not to mention that it does not tell *anything* about what crytpo used, if any.
By an10ae at 8:02 AM ON 05/15/08
@bowz
"Yeah no time at all" *sarc
Since you have to enter the digits in manually and would have to check each combination to see that it worked. Brute force could take a very long time.
Assuming you could check each combination of digits 0 - 9 (that's 10 digits) with repeats possible. That's 1,000,000 combinations.
10*10*10*10*10*10 = 1,000,000
We'll say it takes 30 secs. to enter in the combination and verify it.
That's potentially
30,000,000 secs
or
500,000 minutes
or
8,333 hours
or
347 days
Of course you might just get lucky. But I'm not going to waste a year of my life trying to get at your pr0n.
By ID10T at 8:07 AM ON 05/15/08
AN10AE, if you know the encryption it uses you can run a program to brute force it. Would take all of 30 seconds. I don't think bowz meant typing them in manually, that's just silly.
By iqnatius at 8:12 AM ON 05/15/08
By Texpundit at 8:43 AM ON 05/15/08
To hell with having to brute force it. It's a TOUCH SCREEN. Unless the person is really anal about keeping it clean, you can figure out what numbers they press and just try the combinations. Faster and easier than brute forcing.
On top of that, if you can get a full index finger print off there and the person has a laptop protected by biometrics, you're into that as well.
This is a *really* stupid gadget idea.
By willem at 9:04 AM ON 05/15/08
@an10ae
Average decryption time then is half of 347 days. Don't need a tinfoil hat for that.
By IVIoI3iuS at 9:32 AM ON 05/15/08
$100 to turn an internal SATA into an external drive? And it doesn't even come with the drive? Re-freakin-tarded
By Mike at 11:08 AM ON 05/15/08
I use Truecrypt on my stuff but "Security Now" podcast was talking about this little toy, IronKey https://www.ironkey.com/ and when I say toy I mean James Bond level toy.
By chesh at 11:53 AM ON 05/15/08
By Guy at 12:04 PM ON 05/15/08
Chesh: I don't see how Secustick (your link) is relevant.
Mike mentioned two products: open source TrueCrypt (which I use) and a USB flash drive named Ironkey. AFAIK, both are secure.
This "DataLocker Drive Enclosure" though, looks like an overpriced POS with only faux security.
By gruuby at 12:37 PM ON 05/15/08
NIST certified Triple DES hardware encryption algorithm.
http://www.buslinkbuy.com/store-cat.asp?categoryID=3
By Razor512 at 2:41 PM ON 05/15/08
6 digits is easy to crack if it is just numbers
use any software bruteforcer and have it bruteforce a 6 chatacter password using only numbers 0-9
the average btureforcing program can do around 50 million hashes a second (50 million brute force attempts each second )
with the newer ones which take advantage of the hashing ability of the GPU, it does well over 200 million brute force attempts each second. a 6 digit code doesnt stand a chance
unless they use something thats really slow, because even though a good CPU will do over 50 million each second, the processor in the external enclosure will not be able to handle that many each second thus increasing the time it takes to crack
By hendrawan at 9:40 AM ON 05/16/08
I think that's quite expensive for a mobile security
By sourceholder at 4:16 PM ON 05/16/08
This is not "protection". The attacker can simply remove the drive from the encolsure and wholla, files are readable on any PC.
For real security, use encryption!
By Data Lock at 3:58 PM ON 05/20/08
Hi Guys,
Just a few comments :
1) The Data Locker supports up to a 12 digit password.
2) You can NOT simply remove the drive and use it in another enclosure.
3) You can try to brute force it but it would have to be done manually. You can not write a script to generate PIN on an external touchscreen keypad. Also, after 3 incorrect guesses, you have to power cycle the device.
Thanks
Jay
Data Locker inc.
By flink at 5:41 PM ON 05/22/08
The nice thing about IronKeys is that you only get ten tries. Then it bricks. Messing with its case bricks it. The potting used is the same material as the chip's shell.
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