Since everyone else is introducing themselves, I will also.

 

SPYRUS manufactures the "Hydra PC Enterprise Edition" File Encryption
System, the only hardware token that was approved under the DOD/ESI
GSA/SmartBUY DAR award.  All SPYRUS products are designed and built in
the USA.

 

We also resell a version of WinMagic's SecureDOC FDE product, which
includes support for CAC and PIV cards for pre-boot authentication.
That version also supports the use of the SPYRUS Rosetta token to wrap
the AES-256 disk encryption key is a comparable strength ECC P-384 key -
the highest Suite B strength key size.

 

All other FDE vendors (at least to the best of my knowledge) wrap the
disk encryption key in RSA-2048, or only RSA-1024.  Worse yet, many only
wrap the key in a password and then write that obfuscated key blob to
the disk or removable token, making it highly vulnerable to an
exhaustive search attack.

 

WinMagic is Canadian, but their code has been extensively reviewed by
both NSA and CSE.  They were the first, and as far as I know, the only
full disk encryption vendors to be certified for classified processing,
using the SPYRUS FORTEZZA card.

 

It is interesting to note that neither PointSec nor Utimaco made the
DoD/GSA list or awardees, but I haven't heard any scuttlebutt as to why.

 

Bob



Robert R. Jueneman

Chief Scientist

SPYRUS, Inc.

www.spyrus.com

2355 Oakland Rd., Suite 1

San Jose, CA 95131

408-545-0107 (Office)

408-422-2378 (Cell)

 

See http://www.spyrus.com/productdemo.asp for a brief video regarding
the SPYRUS Hydra Privacy Card.

 

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