Fwd: Encrypting laptops ?

[Richard Barth]

At 01:50 PM 4/1/2011, Andre Kesteloot wrote:

>An easier solution is to put your data on a "Ironkey" USB thumb drive.

I have heard of the "Ironkey" thumb drive.  I have also read reports 
that many of the "encrypted"
thumb drives on the market were designed so that the same keyword, 
fed directly to the drive, will
open it.  Seems the "encryption" process involved taking whatever 
password you entered into the
computer software and converting it to that universal drive key, so 
one was like another; they all responded to the same keyword fed 
directly to the drive.

Is the Ironkey exempt from this nonsense?

Dick


Richard Barth *** W3HWN(at)ARRL.NET *** Silver Spring, MD