Originally Posted By: Dali
For the truly security conscience take a look at the IronKey USB drive....hardware military-grade encryption, tamperproof, self-erase after 10 bad password attempts, waterproof, etc. If you pick a good password / passphrase your data should be very secure.


A couple of things that send up warning flags for me regarding this product:

1) Claim of "military grade encryption"
There is no such thing as military grade encryption

2) No source code for per review.
Any encyption software developer with any credibility will release the encryption routines for peer review. Nothing on the website about this.

3)"FIPS 140-2 compliant"
Huge difference between being FIPS 140-2 compliant and being FIPS 140-2 validated...

4) Self destruct after 10 tries...Cannot understand why this would be needed. If the software is suppossedly that secure, why would it need to self destruct after a measly 10 password attempts, it should never need to self-destruct.

Before buying any encryption product, people who should really read the snake oil faq. It is dated but still explains the fallacy of many encryption claims and marketing hype.