On 03/20/2013 04:47 AM, Michael Hampicke wrote: > Am 20.03.2013 03:58, schrieb Michael Mol: >> Does anybody know of time lock flash drives? >> >> The scenario I'm looking at is to have a drive that's only accessible >> for a certain amount of time after being powered on. It would hold >> crypto keys in a server context. >> > > I am no expert on embedded systems, but couldn't you achieve something > like this by using a small dev board with like an Atmel controller? > Which you then program to act like an USB stick? >
We discussed using a simple RC timer to cut power to the device after a certain amount of uptime, but if I pointed out that if we were spend the time going to that trouble, we may as well go whole-hog and add built-in encryption and make money off the thing. I think the grab-data-and-eject solution is probably the best for our purposes.
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