Kingston Digital DataTraveler 5000 Certified for Use By U.S. Government
Kingston Digital recently announced its DataTraveler 5000 USB Flash drive has been approved for inclusion on the U.S. government’s Data-At-Rest (DAR) list. The certification and the modification of the ban on portable Flash media by the U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM) allows the FIPS 140-2 Level 2 certified DataTraveler 5000 to be used by government entities. You can pick up a 16GB DataTraveler 5000 for $220.98. Not too bad for a rugged, waterproof and titanium coated stainless steel cased drive that is ready for government use!
The DataTraveler 5000 utilizes patented Secured by SPYRUS technology which supports hardware-based 256-bit XTS-AES data encryption and Suite B elliptic curve cryptography. The National Security Agency (NSA) Suite B algorithms were specifically selected and approved by the U.S. government and the Department of Defense (DoD) for use in multinational data sharing environments including both classified and unclassified applications. XTS-AES is a block cipher encryption mode that is much stronger than the more common CBC and ECB cipher modes used to secure data on other USB Flash drives. The DataTraveler 5000 uses patented technologies for key management and key encryption operations to shield cryptographic processing from electronic eavesdropping.
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