Just as we carry keys to open our car doors, users may someday carry electronic keys to access 
computers. SanDisk Corp.’s new TrustedSignins product looks like an ordinary Universal Serial Bus thumb drive, but it combines a 32-bit controller with an embedded cryptographic engine to provide real-time encryption and tamper-resistant security for data.
SanDisk claims that TrustedSignins provides secure protection against online fraud because it uses dual-factor authentication. This is the combination of something a user knows — a password or username — with something he has, such as the TrustedSignins USB flash drive or a mobile card with the same technology
Ron LaPedis, SanDisk’s product marketing manager, said TrustedSignins technology will be available to financial and other institutions for pilot programs before becoming a standard feature on select SanDisk USB flash drives in 2007.
The software is stored and launched directly from the USB flash drive and requires no installation on a host computer, said SanDisk. USB drives to protect against online fraud, ID theft
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