It seems like the benefits are having the device lock/wipe itself after a set amount of attempts in case of a brute force attack and not having to run software to decrypt the drive on the device you plug it into.

I included a picture of the IronKey Keypad 200 but that’s just because it’s the first result that came up when I was looking for an example. There seem to be a few other manufacturers and models out there and they probably have different features.

I am curious what do you think of them? Do you think they are useful? Do you find it more a novelty?


It was an ExplainingComputers video titled Very Useful Small Computing Things that made me think of them.

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    8 months ago

    At that point you should probably use a cloud based solution anyway. Any decently secured system wouldn’t let you plug in a random usb drive anyway.

    I had assumed the use case was more for travel not for trying to access sensitive data on systems that you have limited access.