Glad you like them Virtronic.  I've met with numerous people in the IA group at NSA, and I still don't see how they are going to be able to get your data :-)  They are engaging in a more detailed review to get to a level of validation that's even stronger than our current FIPS 140-2 Level 2.

Have you guys checked out the latest release of the IronKey Enterprise version, which includes a suite of anti-malware capabilities?

Dave

Thanks everyone for a good discussion.

The IronKey Enterprise edition has also recently been released. It allows enterprise administrators to recover locked devices, to customize the password strength and self-destruct policies, to manage devices centrally, and to configure which software applications are available on the devices.

One difference between the IronKey AES encryption and that of others like SanDisk is that IronKey uses the correct mode of AES for large block encryption - cipher-block chaining (CBC).  SanDisk uses Electronic Code Book (ECB) which is not designed for blocks of data larger than about 32 bytes.  Here is a wikipedia entry that discusses the algorithmic differences and has some cool images to show the encryption differences.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_cipher_modes_of_operation