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RBMODS REVIEWS |
Date 2004-08-04
Provider: Eksitdata
Author: Zaint
Editor: Princess Ammie
Eksitdata USB virtual HDD key
In this digital age privacy is important. The USB Virtual HDD Key creates
a hidden "partition" on a harddrive of your choice, and hides it whenever you unplug the unit.
That way your data is safe when you are not around. Or is it? That's what I'm going to find out.
About Eksitdata:
EksitData is a company in Varberg that was founded in the fall of 1997. Our clientele comprises everybody from the home user to government offices. We only operate on the internet and can therefore keep our expenses on a low level. The products on this homepage are only a selection of the most frequently sold ones. We are retailers for the leading brands in the computer section.
Specifications:
Fully USB 1.1 specification compliant
Create it with your own private partition and security
True Plug and Play
No external power required
Features:
USB 1.1specification compliant
No one can access or get data if use the USB Virtual Key
The data will not be disclosed even the computer was lost
Support FAT/ FAT16/ FAT32/ NTFS
True Plug and Play
No external power required
The product:
 
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The USB Virtual HDD Key arrives in a "rip-apart" plastic case, you know one of those that you try to open with your hands and end up cutting up with the scisors?
Although it sounds bad, it is actually good because it guarantees that the unit has not been tampered with since it left the factory.
Inside we find the unit itself, an 8 cm CD, and a really nice USB-cable (which is not needed to connect the Key to your computer)
The Key is really small, smaller than a box of matches. In fact it's so small that it could be hard to find if you've got a somewhat messy desk (like me).
Therefore, the unit has a tiny ring which makes it possible to put it on your keychain. Clever!
If they only made USB-memory sticks and MP3-players this small...
  
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The unit is "slided" out of its case and inserted to a free USB-port.
To install the unit simply plug it in and insert the CD. Windows will find an unknown USB unit and search for the appropriate drivers.
Once the drivers are found you are prompted to re-start your computer which is needed.
When you start your computer the installation will be completed, and you have a new icon in your system tray named The Saint.
The first time you double-click that icon, you will be prompted for a key and a password. I guess it has something with the encryption of the data to do, but
I'm really not sure. I have not been prompted for this since the first time anyway.
  
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Double-click that icon, and you get the window you see in the right picture. If you haven't inserted the Key you get the error in the middle.
>From the main window you can create, delete, and modify your hidden partitions. If you click add you get the window shown in the third picture.
Choose which letter the new partition should have, which hard drive it should be placed on, how big it should be, and what the image name will be.
One bad thing I discovered is that the partition you create has to be an even size, like 100 MB, 200 MB, 1000 MB and so on. Less than 100 MB
is not possible, which is bad since perhaps you want to encrypt your data at school and you only get 10 MB storage.
Anyway, when you press "OK", the partition is created instantly, and an image with the name you chose will be placed in C:\The Saint (if you didn't choose another drive).
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If you try to open that image with for example Wordpad, you get mumbo-jumbo like in the picture above.
This is because it uses encryption, triple-DES encryption to be exact. This makes it very, very, VERY hard to decrypt the data without the correct keys.
Read more about it here: http://www.rsasecurity.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=2231
So now you have a new partition in My Computer. When you have formated it it will work like any other partition.
You can put stuff on it, install programs, games, and so on.
But when you unplug the Key the partition disapears. The only thing left is the image on your hard drive, and you can't do anything with that file, except delete it.
Almost time for conclusion >>>>> Page 2
Thank you Eksitdata for making this review possible
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