Kingston data traveler locker

[dmarques]

Hi,

I have this Kingston pen drive here, that is protected with password, that encrypts the contents of the pen.
Client by accident clicked on the format button and set a new password and now needs to get the files that were there.
Anyone had any experience with this ones and know if the encryption is done at chip level?

Thanks

[jeremyb]

Depends..
IIRC Kingston had two methods..

#1:
On older drives w/ a phison controller an app mounts a hidden unencrypted partition stored in the NAND chip (no encryption done).

#2:
On newer drives the app mounts an AES encrypted image file on the visible drive (encryption done by software).

The latter would be more difficult to recover.

[dmarques]

This one is quite recent, so I guess it's case #2.
Thanks