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Re:Military Bans Disks, Threatens Courts-Martial to Stop New... by iwr on Friday December 10, 2010 @03:36AM (#1991073)
The military could issue USB storage devices and identity tokens that keep their information internally encrypted and which only work on sirpnet-trusted computers.

Scenario: Anything copied to the USB device is internally encrypted, offline, with one of the military's public keys. This process requires no network-side authentication, but would require the soldier's "identity key" to also be plugged in and "sign" the contents.

Putting the storage device in a non-trusted computer means the contents are not retrievable.

To decrypt the contents of the device, you have to first authenticate to sirpnet from a trusted computer. It's then and only then that the computer is allowed to unlock the information on the removable drive.

This method is not safe to hardware reverse-engineering, but should be safe enough for operational use.

Re:Military Bans Disks, Threatens Courts-Martial to Stop New... by mahmud on Friday December 10, 2010 @06:29AM (#1991324)
Pitch it to them and assemble a team.