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{{ helpme}} Looking for someone to validate this article and let me know if there's anything needing cleaning up before I move it into the live namespace. Thanks! — Endareth Talk– Edits 01:51, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
I've removed most of the bulletpoints listed below, as they are little more than an ad for IronKey/an attempt at slagging off the (open source!) competition, were in the wrong place, and duplicate a bunch of text already present in the article. Comments below each one:
Nuwewsco ( talk) 23:35, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
As there seems to be some debate on this issue, I wanted to try and get consensus on what should or shouldn't be in this article in regard to software full disk encryption on a standard drive. To start with, it can obviously be argued that use of free/cheap full disk encryption software on any flash drive results in an encrypted flash drive, which, at its core, is functionally equivalent to an IronKey Basic model (or the equivalent basic model of most other commercial encrypted flash drives). I'm not going to get into comparison between hardware and software based encryption, as we're talking functionality here. The key point here is that it is only the Basic version of the IronKey which is being compared to in this case. In the same way that there are brief comments next to the other similar products (SanDisk Cruzer, Kingston DataTraveler, etc), mentioning ways in which they differ, I believe that it's worthwhile mentioning (in brief) the differences between a software-on-any-drive solution and an IronKey drive also. Adding extra software to such a drive can bring it closer in functionality to the standard (Personal) IronKey, but the same can also be said for any of the other similar products, and doesn't really merit inclusion. (There's probably also scope for a full article comparing hardware based encrypted flash drives, similar to the Comparison of disk encryption software article, but that's going off topic.) I suspect I'm having difficulty quite getting my point across, but I'm happy to discuss this further here to try and get the article as factually accurate as possible. Thanks! — Endareth Talk– Edits 02:27, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
I see the change I made on December 26th last year, that IronKey S200 is not the only USB drive certified for FIPS 140-2 Level 3, has been reverted. Looking at the article's history, its seems that the rollback has something to do with some Kingston USB drive. But the reason for that revision was because Lexar JumpDrive SAFE S3000 had also passed FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validation according to the following page, ironically the same reference used to support the fact that IronKey S200 and D200 are the only ones certified : [1] (It is strange though that the name for the apparently same product found at Lexar's website is Lexar JumpDrive® SAFE S3000 FIPS and not the one without "FIPS", which on the other hand is not FIPS 140-2 validated.) Lexar even advertise the product as the world first (Smart-Card based) FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validated flash drive, which might or might not be true considering the validation date. In any case, I think this product was somehow overlooked and ask for other's conformation on that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.36.15.41 ( talk) 03:07, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
It seems to me that this (... NSA wear level erase of the flash....) begs for a hyperlink or a footnote defining the term. I attempted to find a definition, but I was not successful. DessertRat ( talk) 22:43, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
This article has not yet been rated on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. |
{{ helpme}} Looking for someone to validate this article and let me know if there's anything needing cleaning up before I move it into the live namespace. Thanks! — Endareth Talk– Edits 01:51, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
I've removed most of the bulletpoints listed below, as they are little more than an ad for IronKey/an attempt at slagging off the (open source!) competition, were in the wrong place, and duplicate a bunch of text already present in the article. Comments below each one:
Nuwewsco ( talk) 23:35, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
As there seems to be some debate on this issue, I wanted to try and get consensus on what should or shouldn't be in this article in regard to software full disk encryption on a standard drive. To start with, it can obviously be argued that use of free/cheap full disk encryption software on any flash drive results in an encrypted flash drive, which, at its core, is functionally equivalent to an IronKey Basic model (or the equivalent basic model of most other commercial encrypted flash drives). I'm not going to get into comparison between hardware and software based encryption, as we're talking functionality here. The key point here is that it is only the Basic version of the IronKey which is being compared to in this case. In the same way that there are brief comments next to the other similar products (SanDisk Cruzer, Kingston DataTraveler, etc), mentioning ways in which they differ, I believe that it's worthwhile mentioning (in brief) the differences between a software-on-any-drive solution and an IronKey drive also. Adding extra software to such a drive can bring it closer in functionality to the standard (Personal) IronKey, but the same can also be said for any of the other similar products, and doesn't really merit inclusion. (There's probably also scope for a full article comparing hardware based encrypted flash drives, similar to the Comparison of disk encryption software article, but that's going off topic.) I suspect I'm having difficulty quite getting my point across, but I'm happy to discuss this further here to try and get the article as factually accurate as possible. Thanks! — Endareth Talk– Edits 02:27, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
I see the change I made on December 26th last year, that IronKey S200 is not the only USB drive certified for FIPS 140-2 Level 3, has been reverted. Looking at the article's history, its seems that the rollback has something to do with some Kingston USB drive. But the reason for that revision was because Lexar JumpDrive SAFE S3000 had also passed FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validation according to the following page, ironically the same reference used to support the fact that IronKey S200 and D200 are the only ones certified : [1] (It is strange though that the name for the apparently same product found at Lexar's website is Lexar JumpDrive® SAFE S3000 FIPS and not the one without "FIPS", which on the other hand is not FIPS 140-2 validated.) Lexar even advertise the product as the world first (Smart-Card based) FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validated flash drive, which might or might not be true considering the validation date. In any case, I think this product was somehow overlooked and ask for other's conformation on that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.36.15.41 ( talk) 03:07, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
It seems to me that this (... NSA wear level erase of the flash....) begs for a hyperlink or a footnote defining the term. I attempted to find a definition, but I was not successful. DessertRat ( talk) 22:43, 19 May 2010 (UTC)