www.kingston.com/europe/digitalmedia DataTraveler Elite Advanced Security and High Performance White Paper A leading-edge solution for business and corporate IT users that combines advanced data security with outstanding performance.
DataTraveler Elite White Paper Introduction Conveniently small, portable, and easy to use, USB Flash drives have become one of the fastest growing Digital Media products. Many business customers and advanced consumers require key features to enhance their use of USB Flash drives, including advanced security, high performance and file synchronization. Customers require advanced security to guard against sensitive data loss should the DataTraveler drives get lost, misplaced, or borrowed without permission.
DataTraveler Elite White Paper privacy zone is created using the TravelerSafe+ console, data stored there will be encrypted using the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES-128): Public Zone Privacy Zone (AES Encrypted) DT Elite with public and encrypted, password-protected privacy zone (shown in red) Without a valid password, unauthorized access to the privacy zone is blocked, and the data remains encrypted and protected.
DataTraveler Elite White Paper 1.2.1 Advanced Encryption Standard (AES-128) The Advanced Encryption Standard was defined by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 1997. Kingston has adopted the AES-128 standard for 128-bit encryption/decryption. With this standard, if a key is used to encrypt data, the exact same key must be used to decrypt the data. Without the same key, data would be a useless string of data. 1.2.
DataTraveler Elite White Paper Without the unique 128-bit key, which is uniquely generated for the DT Elite utilizing a true random number generator, encrypted data is nearly impossible to decode. 1.3 Software-Based Encryption vs. DT Elite’s Hardware-Based AES Encryption 1.3.1 Software-Based Encryption Host Computer Unencrypted Files Key 00 11 11 00 11 00 00 00 00 11 …… …… ....
DataTraveler Elite White Paper In addition, utilizing hardware encryption on the DT Elite itself does not expose the AES “key” to host computers or networks, further increasing security. In the DT Elite, the encrypted user password and the key are never shared outside of the DT Elite. With software-based encryption approaches, the key or keys are exposed to the host computer and network.
DataTraveler Elite White Paper DataTraveler Elite DataTraveler II Plus DataTraveler II DataTraveler Read Data Transfer Rate (Peak) 24 MB/sec. Write Data Transfer Rate (Peak) 14 MB/sec. Public/Privacy Zone Support Yes 19 MB/sec. 11 MB/sec. 6.5 MB/sec 13 MB/sec. 7 MB/sec. 1.5 MB/sec. Yes Yes No Advanced Security Yes (Hardware AES-128) No No No Kingston DataTraveler Transfer Rates and Security Features 3.1 Hi-Speed USB 2.
DataTraveler Elite White Paper The DataTraveler drives tested are abbreviated as: DT DT II DT II Plus DT Elite = DataTraveler = DataTraveler II = DataTraveler II Plus = DataTraveler Elite 3.2.1 Large Directory/Large Number of Files Benchmarks The following three benchmarks utilize large-sized directories with many files to show the performance scalability of DataTraveler Flash drives. 3.2.1.
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DataTraveler Elite White Paper 226 MB/231 Files* Benchmark DT Elite DT II Plus Erase DT II Read Write DT 0 50 100 150 200 250 Elapsed Time (Shorter is better) * Files used are JPEG picture files from a 3.3 mega pixel digital camera. File sizes vary from 475 KB to 2.6 MB.
DataTraveler Elite White Paper 3.2.3 DT Elite Encryption/Decryption Performance Benchmark The175-MB/ 40-Files benchmark was used to test the DT Elite’s AES-128 encryption/decryption performance. AES-128 Benchmark Public Zone (no encryption) Privacy Zone (with AES-128 encryption) Write 18 Read 7 Erase 1 18 7 1 As expected, there are absolutely no performance compromises resulting from the DT Elite’s hardware-based AES-128 encryption/decryption. 4.
