The UNIKEN R&D center has been working on various concepts related to securing information on storage devices such as USBs and CDs. Apart from content security, the objective is to ensure that through encryption, the data cannot be tampered, modified, or copied on to other devices.

Further, for certain category of secure applications, these devices can serve as binding devices, so that the application is launched only from these devices and will not run if it is copied and executed from any other device.

Secure USB
This device has been designed in such a way, that the information is split between multiple memory units on the device. Each memory is physically separate and can be accessed by special purpose applications. This information cannot be accessed by the operating system. The files stored in the private memory locations are not visible to the operating system. One can store sensitive data to these secure locations and can access them only through the applications that are delivered along with the USB device. These applications can further be bound to the host computing device, and one can ensure that the information (application/data) can be accessed only from the computing device that has been registered.

Secure CD
Distributing content over CD ROMs is quite common. However, the risk of CDs being copied and duplicates being made is the biggest threat from a content protection standpoint. We have developed specialized applications that are designed to read, write and render the information on the CD in such a manner that in the event of content being copied from the CD to another storage device/CD, the data will not be readable. Optionally, the data stored on the CD can be made ‘read only' by the specialized application provided along with the CD.

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