Raidon's STARAY S3 Series Data Encryption Box now available
By Darren Murph 
posted Aug 4th 2008 9:52AM
posted Aug 4th 2008 9:52AM
Psst... hey you. Yeah, you. Tired of having to sleep with one eye on your HDD? Enter Raidon's STARAY S3 Series Data Encryption Box, which enables the drive within to be partitioned into public and private parts. There's also talk of S-Codes and X-Codes in order to ratchet up security, and the keypad-based password entry ensures that data snatchers will have to extract strings of thought from your brain before they can tap into your collection of 1980s-era R&B videos. Get yours sent to an undisclosed underground location for just $69, but don't forget to order up a hard drive while you're at it.
Hey, this thing must be very secure when they don't even tell the encryption used!
According to the data sheet, it's "64-bit proprietary". Ummm... ok. Probably something real secure like XOR.
I also like on the one of the diagrams the X-zone containing some picture of a thong.
So, I guess the real purpose of the drive is to keep people from seeing your pr0n, not for any real security.
i don't trust it
Nothing like praying on the paranoid...
*preying*
Damnit it's still too early...
Can boarder patrol break the encryption if they confiscate the device?
i'm pretty happy with the maxtor blackarmor drives. as long as i don't forget my password, this provides direct encryption and no way of restore without the password
Sure...encrypt it. Just don't complain when they hold you in contempt and put you somewhere unpleasant for not decrypting it when the nice judge tells you to.
I suppose it might not be a bad idea just to keep the casual snooping to a minimum though.
Just in case anyone has a spare laptop hdd laying around, this could be somewhat useful. However, it seems pointless to make this for only 2.5" drives and not full 3.5" ones.
Reminds me about that SETEC ASTRONOMY - NO MORE SECRETS crypto box :)
Or, just have an encrypted partition on your laptop that's not mounted at boot time. When you need to access the data, mount the partition, otherwise leave it unmounted. I doubt any customs guys/gals would notice a partition that doesn't come up without manual intervention.
He said private parts. Snicker, snicker.
If it's not doing encryption on the drive itself then this is no better than using truecrypt.
If the drive itself is doing the encryption then it has some advantages over truecrypt, for instance you wouldn't be able to mirror the drive and try to brute force it.
By the way, any encryption that is not open source is not good for two reasons. Security through obscurity is just lame. 2, There's nobody to review the code for backdoors or security flaws.
anyone using Truecrypt there? lol.
or truecypt plus this drive? lol...