Data security system with encryption

摘要

A data security system is provided that includes: verifying the user by providing user identification to retrieve an authentication key; employing the authentication key for retrieving an encryption key; and employing the encryption key for allowing unencrypted communication through a storage subsystem between a host computer system and a storage media.

主权项

1. A data security method comprising:
verifying a user identification against an authentication key, the user identification supplied from outside a data security system to an electro-mechanical input mechanism or a radio frequency receiver within an electronic authentication subsystem of a portable memory device having flash memory; employing the authentication key for retrieving an encryption key, the authentication key only accessible from inside the electronic authentication subsystem; and employing the encryption key for allowing unencrypted communication through the storage subsystem between a host computer system and a storage media of the portable memory device having flash memory, the encryption key received from the electronic authentication subsystem by an encryption engine of the storage subsystem for decrypting the storage subsystem.