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IRONKEY ENTERPRISE USER GUIDE
Password Manager Protection
The IronKey Password Manager and
my.ironkey.com
work together, giving
you the ability to back up your online passwords to your Online Security
Vault. First, you must unlock your IronKey device, which requires two-
factor authentication. Your passwords are securely stored in a hidden
hardware-encrypted area inside the device (not in the file system), being
first locally encrypted with 256-bit AES, using randomly generated keys
encrypted with a SHA-56 hash of your device password. All of this data
is then doubly encrypted with 8-bit AES hardware encryption. This is
the strongest password protection we have ever seen in the industry.
When you back up your passwords online, IronKey performs a complicat-
ed public key cryptography handshake with IronKey’s services using RSA
048-bit keys. After successful authentication, your encrypted block of
password data is securely transmitted over SSL to your encrypted Online
Security Vault.
Making Tor Faster and More Secure
IronKey has extended the public Tor network with its own, high-perfor-
mance servers. This improves the overall security in at least two ways:
Since IronKey controls the “exit-node” in your encrypted Tor
circuit, we can ensure that no one is injecting unwanted or
malicious content into your online communications, such as
advertisements or spyware. You are not assured this level of
security with other publicly-run exit-nodes.
IronKey can also make sure that no exit-node is redirecting
your web traffic by providing addition DNS protections. This
anti-pharming measure can also help mitigate phishing attacks
and other online threats.
Find lots more technical
information at
https://learn.ironkey.com
.
