Griffin Technologies Debuts SecuriKey for Macintosh
TMO at MWSF - Griffin Technologies Debuts SecuriKey for Macintosh
by , 5:05 PM EST, January 14th, 2005
SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- Griffin Technologies LLC, provider of information security solutions for software protection and user authentication, released SecuriKey for Macintosh professional Edition at this week's Macworld Expo. Bennett Griffin, President and Founder, took a moment to demonstrate this product.
SecuriKey for Macintosh is a hardware and software combination that provides robust access control for users of Mac OS X 10.3 and above. The hardware is in the form of a USB dongle that contains a cryptographic hardware chip. The current product implements the FEAL-32 symmetric key algorithm. Future versions of the product will also support AES and ECC. When the dongle is inserted into a Mac, everything operates normally. When the device is removed, the user can choose to have the Mac shut down, log out the current user, or go into a lock mode where processes are still allowed to run.
The software, which is in the form of a System Preference Pane, handles the configuration and management of the system. The software can be installed on multiple computers, either Mac or PC. Separate passwords and privileges can be assigned to each user. And enterprise version of the software, already available on Windows, will be available on the Mac later in 2005.
SecuriKey for Macintosh Professional Edition is now shipping worldwide and is priced at US$129.
Observer Comments
Sun Jan 16, 2005 10:33 pm Subject: This product is currently only uses built in Apple crypto
The current implementaion of the Griffen key is not what most people seem to think it is. All this product currently does is provide a hardware key to open the OS 10 FileVault. The USB key doesn't do anything else. You get no extra encryption or control over FileVault.
Personally, I find FileVault to be overkill. It encrypts your whole home folder (including Apps) or nothing.
Sun Jan 16, 2005 10:37 pm Subject: I don't think this product will make you all that happy
This product only provides a hardware key for Apple's OSX FileVault feature. You get no extra crypto at all--just a hardware key to give a password to FileVault. And FileVault encrypts the whole home folder or nothing. Just use a password for now or use secure disk images from the built in Disk Utility.
This is not a revolutionary product. Wait, at least, until the next version comes out.
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