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  2. UEFI - Wikipedia

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    When Secure Boot is enabled, it is initially placed in "setup" mode, which allows a public key known as the "platform key" (PK) to be written to the firmware. Once the key is written, Secure Boot enters "User" mode, where only UEFI drivers and OS boot loaders signed with the platform key can be loaded by the firmware.

  3. Lightweight Portable Security - Wikipedia

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    As of September 2011 (version 1.2.5), the LPS public distribution includes a smart card-enabled Firefox browser supporting DoD's CAC and Personal Identity Verification (PIV) cards, a PDF and text viewer, Java, a file browser, remote desktop software (Citrix, Microsoft or VMware View), an SSH client, the public edition of Encryption Wizard and ...

  4. USB flash drive security - Wikipedia

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    Secure USB flash drives protect the data stored on them from access by unauthorized users. USB flash drive products have been on the market since 2000, and their use is increasing exponentially. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] As businesses have increased demand for these drives, manufacturers are producing faster devices with greater data storage capacities.

  5. Pre-boot authentication - Wikipedia

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    Without cryptographic protection of a hardware (TPM) supported secure boot environment, PBA is easily defeated with Evil Maid style of attacks. However, with modern hardware (including TPM or cryptographic multi-factor authentication) most FDE solutions are able to ensure that removal of hardware for brute-force attacks is no longer possible.

  6. Boot sector - Wikipedia

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    When GRUB is installed on a hard disk, boot.img is written into the boot sector of that hard disk. boot.img has a size of only 446 bytes. A boot sector is the sector of a persistent data storage device (e.g., hard disk , floppy disk , optical disc , etc.) which contains machine code to be loaded into random-access memory (RAM) and then executed ...

  7. Comparison of encrypted external drives - Wikipedia

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    USB-B 3.x Gen 1 18 TB [21] Keypad, external Power Supply, 2 year manifacturer warranty [21] iStorage diskAshur M.2 Un­known AES 256-bit Hardware Encryption FIPS 140-3 Level 3 USB-A 3.x Gen1 2 TB waterproof, IP68 certified, Keypad, incl. USB cable (USB-A and USB-C), three years manifacturer-warranty [22] SafeStick SuperSonic No

  8. BitLocker - Wikipedia

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    USB Key Mode: The user must insert a USB device that contains a startup key into the computer to be able to boot the protected OS. Note that this mode requires that the BIOS on the protected machine supports the reading of USB devices in the pre-OS environment.

  9. Live USB - Wikipedia

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    Live USB OSes like Ubuntu Linux apply all filesystem writes to a casper filesystem overlay (casper-rw) that, once full or out of flash drive space, becomes unusable and the OS ceases to boot. [citation needed] USB controllers on add-in cards (e.g. ISA, PCI, and PCI-E) are almost never capable of being booted from, so systems that do not have ...