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Encryption Cracked On NIST-Certified Flash Drives

Posted by timothy on from the whoopsie-daisy dept.

An anonymous reader writes "USB Flash drives with hardware based AES 256-bit encryption manufactured by Kingston, SanDisk and Verbatim have reportedly been cracked by security firm SySS. These drives are advertised to meet security standards suitable for use with sensitive US Government data (unclassified, of course) as emphasized by the FIPS 140-2 Level 2 certificate issued by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). It looks likes the Windows-based password entry program always sends the same character string to the drive after performing various crypto operations."

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  1. Re:It's not just the algorithm by Monkeedude1212 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Good for you the Federal Reserve isn't owned by the government. Its a private bank.

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