![]() It is in fact so highly respected, it has become to ‘go to’ encryption method for security agencies, banks and governments to trust it with their highly sensitive information and state secrets. AES is a widely used encryption standard able to be resilient against attacks. AES is an acronym for “Advanced Encryption Standard”, originally invented in 2001 as the “Rijndael Cypher” after it’s creators Daemen and Rijmen. The Secure Key 3z uses a hardware based encryption, namely 256-bit AES XTS. ![]() Additional technology is simply not required to secure your data with the Aegis Secure Key 3z ![]() Try enough times using either brute force or dictionary attempts and you may just crack the key and thus give yourself access to the information. The majority of disk encryption is at software level which means that you can access the information, but it is in effect ‘scrambled’ using a password or code. Thus Faust is oblivious to the smoke and mirrors that has just taken place and continues on with her mission (should she choose to accept it!).Īll of the above just seemed completely unnecessary and it was with this still in mind that I began testing and reviewing the Apricorn Aegis Secure Key 3z, a storage device which not only hardware encrypts your data but also includes a self destruct option for those most inconvenient moments when your only option is to completely destroy the data! If you watch Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, you will find a scene near the end of the movie where Faust (Rebecca Ferguson) hands a USB drive to her ‘handler’ Atlee (Simon McBurney), he then proceeds to surreptitiously erase the contents of the USB stick using an combination of distraction, slight of hand, a Nokia 930 smartphone and a copy of the Financial Times. Mission Impossible : Rogue Nation – USB Memory Stick deletion scene – image credit: Paramount Pictures
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