Kingston Releases FIPS 140-2 Level 3 Encrypted USB Flash Drive

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Kingston Digital, Inc., the Flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, today announced a pair of next-generation encrypted USB Flash drives designed to safeguard an organization’s valuable data. The DataTraveler® 4000 Gen. 2 and DataTraveler 4000 Gen. 2 Management Ready protect sensitive information with high-level encryption.

DataTraveler 4000 Gen. 2 is FIPS 140-2 Level 3 certified so it provides a tamper-evident seal for physical security to detect and respond to attempts to access, use or modify the cryptographic module. Data is protected by hardware-based 256-bit AES encryption in XTS mode and the drive casing is made of titanium coated stainless steel. The drive is designed to reduce the possibility of successful brute force attacks as it locks down and reformats after 10 failed password attempts.
 
This is still vulnerable to the USB hack. And does the encryption have a NSA back door built in?

I have no idea what "the" USB hack is.

And yes, I'm sure it has some sort of NSA backdoor. Everything does, when you have tens if billions of dollars at your disposal to crack encryption.
 
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