brent saner on 27 Jun 2015 13:23:39 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] USB-attached, hardware-encrypted card reader ... why vaporware?


personally, i don't trust hardware encryption- it doesn't allow for tweaking or transparency, and due to the limited hardware onboard they tend to be fairly limited.

however, in the wake of truecrypt's journey into abandonware, there IS the cross-platform CipherShed,
https://ciphershed.org

give it a shot. i prefer LUKS via cryptsetup personally, but i don't have anything that necessitates cross-platform compatibility (and if it does, i just boot a liveCD that supports cryptsetup/luks).

i talk a bit about other volume-storage encryptions in the podcast episode i did here: https://sysadministrivia.com/notes/Season_0:Episode_5


On Sat, Jun 27, 2015, 15:51  <bergman@merctech.com> wrote:
I've got lots of SD cards floating aroung. They're convenient, portable,
cheap, and now have a useful capacity. However, they've got no intrinsic
security.  Filesystem encryption through software isn't portable across
operating systems, and often requires privileges to install the required
software.

I'd like a USB-attached SD card reader that does hardware encryption.

Yes, there are hardware-encrypted, USB-attached flash drives[1], but
they are quite expensive and have fixed-capacity.

There's been a failed crowd-funded attempt at creating this
device[2].

There's a company the purports to make exactly what I'm seeking[3], but
the product doesn't seem to be available for retail sale if exists at all
(no response from the company, no resellers, no recent updates, etc).

Does anyone know of a source for this kind of device, or have
speculation as to why it doesn't exist?

Thanks,

Mark

[1] http://www.apricorn.com/products/hardware-encrypted-drives/aegis-secure-key-3-0.html
[2] http://www.cryptx2.com
[3] http://hiddn.no/cocrypt
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