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Virtual or permanent data keys
You can create a data key using a generation code of your own
invention, or use a freely selectable file with a content of more than
100 kB to create a data key. If the generation code or file used is
exactly the same, a data key with the same content will always be
created. It is also possible to create a data key with the implemented
random generator. The generated data key can be saved on a storage
medium.
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Linking a data key or ciphertext to a storage medium
The data key can be linked to a USB stick. On another USB key, the
data key will then no longer work for the cipher rate created with the
linked data key. This is copy protection if you ever have to give the
USB key with the data key out of your hand. Files can be encrypted so
that they can only be decrypted on the computer on which they were
encrypted. However, there is the possibility of creating a hash file
with which the cipher can be decrypted on another computer. The
hash file is not a data key, but simulates the computer on which the
original was encrypted.
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Key safe
In the key safe you can store your data keys password-protected. The data
keys are stored in a folder and can only be restored to their original state by
entering your password. This gives you, for example, as the head of a
department or company, the opportunity to give each member of staff their
own copy-protected data key on a USB stick, which they can then use to
protect the data on their PC from unauthorised viewing. If the data key is lost
for whatever reason, you can then issue a new, functioning data key with
which the stored data can be deciphered. For this application purpose, there
is a variant of the programme for staff members which only allows the use of
an existing data key, but not the generation of a data key.