Spyrus Adds Mac and Linux to Windows Support

SPYRUS, Inc. announced that the same high assurance USB flash drive security designed into their Microsoft Window compatible devices is now available to Mac and Linux users.

As a member of the Hydra Privacy Card family, this new OEM-only USB flash drive implements advanced hardware security techniques to provide the most secure use-anywhere USB flash drive available today. Every sector of the device’s memory is protected with the advanced, hardware-based XTS-AES 256-bit encryption recommended by IEEE 1669 and referenced by the NIST SP800-38E standard for full disk encryption.

This new SPYRUS sector-based media encryption device uses the same Rosetta Micro FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validated hardware security module built into the entire SPYRUS Hydra Privacy Card family. The device implements XTS-AES 256, AES CBC, ECDH P-384, ECDSA P-384, and SHA-384, which together make up the National Security Agency’s Suite B cryptography.

The device’s packaging is designed to meet FIPS 140-2 Level 3 specifications for tamper-resistant epoxy potting with built-in anti-tamper and self-destruct mechanisms, thus protecting the device against unauthorized access to the device and data.

Unlike competing use-anywhere encrypting USB flash drives, SPYRUS does not offer to store a copy of your password nor backup the data on your drive to a system on the Internet, where your confidential information could be at risk to hackers.

The device also can be used with the SPYRUS Secure Pocket Drive, the first secure, native, and licensed Microsoft Windows Embedded Standard OS on an encrypting USB flash drive. When used in this manner, it can provide two-person control of information transfer between disparate systems. With the addition of a SPYRUS Hydra Privacy Card Digital Attaché encrypting storage device, three-person control can be implemented to allow the secure exchange of information between multiple Microsoft Windows systems.

SPYRUS will be demonstrating their high assurance devices at LandWarNet in Tampa Florida from August 3-5, 2010.