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    P A GE 1 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE User Guide Ir onK e y P ersonal Secur e Flash Driv e[...]

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    P A GE 1 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE Thank y ou for y our inter est in Ir onK e y . Ir onK ey is committed to cr eating and dev eloping the best security technologies and making them simple-to-use , affor dable , and a vailable to ev er y- one . Y ears of resear ch and millions of dollars of de velopment ha v e gone into bringing this tech- nolog y to y ou[...]

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    P A GE 2 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE CONTENTS What is it? Meet the Ir onK ey Cor e Featur es Device Diagrams T echnical & Security Notes Ir onK ey Device Security Ir onK ey Ser vices Secur ity Ho w Does it W ork? Pr oduct W alkthrough Initializing and Activating Y our Ir onK ey on Windo ws Using the Ir onK ey Unloc k er on Windo ws Initializing Y our I[...]

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    P A GE 3 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE What is it? Meet the Ir onK e y The Ir onK ey P ersonal Secure Flash Driv e, designed to be the w orld’ s most secur e USB ash drive, protects y our data, passw ords, and Internet privacy with some of toda y’ s most advanced security technologies. Even if your Ir onK e y is lost or stolen, your data r emains prot[...]

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    P A GE 4 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE P ortable Cr oss-Platform Data Access The Ir onK ey Unlock er allows y ou to access your encrypted les on Win - dows 2000, XP , Vista, Mac OS X and n umerous distributions of Lin ux. Simple De vice Manag ement Y our Ir onK ey includes the Ir onK ey Contr ol Panel, a central launchpad for launching your a pplications,[...]

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    P A GE 5 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE De vice Diagrams The Ir onK ey has been designed fr om the ground up with security in mind. A combination of advanced security technologies ar e used to ensure maximum pr otection of y our data. Additionally , the IronK ey has been designed to be ph ysically secur e, to pr ev ent hardwar e-le vel attacks and tampering, [...]

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    P A GE 6 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE T echnical & Security Notes W e are endea v oring to be very open about the security architectur e and technology that we use in designing and building the Ir onK ey devices and online ser vices. There is no hocus-pocus or handwa ving her e . W e use established cr yptographic alg orithms, we de velop thr eat models[...]

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    P A GE 7 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE P assw ord Mana ger Pr otection The Ir onK ey Passw ord Manager and m y .ironk ey .com work together , giving you the ability to back up y our online passw ords to y our Online Security V ault at my .ir onk ey .com . First, you m ust unlock your Ir onK ey de vice, which requir es tw o-factor authentication. Y our pass w[...]

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    P A GE 8 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE Secure Sessions: Making T or Faster and Mor e Secure Ir onK ey maintains a secur e , private T or network with its own, high-perf or - mance ser v ers (separate from the public T or network). This improv es the ov erall security in at least two wa ys: Since Ir onK ey contr ols the “exit-node” in your encrypted T or [...]

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    P A GE 9 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE Ho w does it work? Pr oduct W alkthr ough Y our Ir onK ey P ersonal Secure Flash Driv e consists of the following components: » Ir onK ey Unlock er (Windows, Mac and Linux) » Ir onK ey Contr ol P anel (Windows only) » Ir onK ey Vir tual K eyboar d (Windows only) » Mozilla Firef o x & IronK e y’ s Secur e Sessi[...]

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    P A GE 10 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE 3 Create a device passw ord and a nickname for y our Ir onK ey . Since you can ha ve multiple Ir onK eys associated with one Ir onK ey account, the nickname helps you distin- guish between diff erent Ir onK ey de vices. Y our passw ord is case-sensitiv e and must be at least 4 characters in length. The threat of brute-[...]

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    P A GE 11 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE USING THE IRONKEY UNLOCKER ON WINDO WS The Ir onK ey Unlock er allows y ou to securel y access your les on m ultiple operating systems. It pr ompts you f or your pass wor d, securely validates it, and then mounts y our secur e volume where all of y our les ar e stored on the Ir onK ey . Here is ho w to unlock you[...]

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    P A GE 12 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE INITIALIZING Y OUR IRONKEY ON A MA C If you pr efer to use a Mac, you can choose to initialize y our Ir onK ey on a Mac OS X computer : Step Description 1 Plug the Ir onK ey into y our computer’ s USB port. Y our Ir onK ey will run on Mac OS X (10.4 or 10.5), P ow erPC or Intel computers. It can also be setup and use[...]

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    P A GE 13 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE USING THE IRONKEY UNLOCKER ON A MA C The Ir onK ey Unlock er for Mac will allow y ou to access y our les and change your de vice pass - wor d on a Mac. Y ou can use the other IronK e y applications and ser vices on a Windows com- puter . Step Description 1 Plug in your Ir onK ey and unlock it with your pass wor d. W[...]

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    P A GE 14 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE 3 Create a de vice passw ord and a nickname for y our Ir onK ey . Since you can ha ve multiple Ir onK eys, the nickname helps you distinguish betw een differ ent Ir onK ey de- vices. Y our passw ord is case-sensitiv e and must be at least 4 characters long . The threat of brute-for ce passw ord attacks is r emoved b y [...]

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    P A GE 15 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE Note that simply unmounting the de vice will not automatically lock the secur e volume. T o lock the device y ou will ha v e to either unmount and ph ysically r emov e (unplug) it, or else run: ironkey --lock Please note the follo wing impor tant details for using y our IronK e y on Linux: 1. K ernel V er sion must be [...]

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    P A GE 16 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE USING THE IRONKEY CONTROL P ANEL    Step Description 1 Creating, editing, deleting secur e les When you click on “Secure Files” in the Ir onK ey Contr ol Panel, Windo ws Explorer will open dir ectly to your secur e v olume . All les on your Ir onK e y are str ongly[...]

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    P A GE 17 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE 3 Conguring device settings The Settings menu allows y ou to congur e pref erences to your liking, such as: » Enabling/Disabling the Passw ord Manager » Enabling/Disabling the Secur e Sessions » Conguring Passw ord Manager options » Select which web br o wser your Ir onK ey should use » Enabling an automa[...]

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    P A GE 18 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE 7 Adding, r enaming, and remo ving applications to the Applications List T o manage the items in the Application List of the Ir onK ey Contr ol Panel, simply right-click anywher e in Application List. A menu will appear allo wing you to: 1. Br owse to a new a pplication to add it to the list 2. Rename existing applicat[...]

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    P A GE 19 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE Step Description 1 Click the Ir onK ey Vir tual K ey- board icon. The Ir onK ey Vir tual K eyboar d will appear . Alternativ ely , y ou can press CTRL + AL T + V 2 Click on the k eys to type out your pass wor d. Click on ‘Enter’ when you ar e nished. Note that y ou can use the IronK e y Vir tual K eyboar d in co[...]

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    P A GE 20 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE 2 T oggle Secure Sessions for secur e and private surng Clicking the Ir onK ey button on the bottom right of the onboard Fir efo x will silently turn Ir onK ey’ s Secure Sessions Ser vice on/off. This will create an encr ypted tunnel directl y fr om your Ir onK ey , out to a secured Ir onK ey w eb ser ver , wher e[...]

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    P A GE 21 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE USING THE IRONKEY P ASSW ORD MANA GER       The Ir onK ey Passw ord Manager connects to the onboar d Firef ox br owser , or to Internet Ex- plorer (v ersions 6 or 7) on y our computer , automatically lling in y our sa ved pass wor ds so[...]

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    P A GE 22 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE 3 Editing/deleting logins and P or - table Bookmarks Y ou can manage your Pass wor d Manager accounts fr om within the IronK e y Control Panel. Each w ebsite will ha v e a set-able name , a URL, a username (logins only), and a passw or d (logins only). Y our passw ords ar e not shown unless y ou click the “Show” ch[...]

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    P A GE 23 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE USING THE SECURE BA CKUP SOFTW ARE    If your Ir onK e y is lost or stolen, you ha v e peace of mind knowing that your condential information cannot be seen by an yone but y ou. And getting y our data back is simple with Ir onK ey’ s Secure Backup softwar e , which securel[...]

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    P A GE 24 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE IMPOR TING A DIGIT AL CER TIFICA TE INT O THE IRONKEY    The Ir onK ey Cr yptochip includes a limited amount of extr emely secure har dwar e storage space , which can be used for storing the private k e y associated with a digital cer ticate. This pr ovides you with ad ditio[...]

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    P A GE 25 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE 4 Note that Ir onK ey’ s certicate is a vailable her e . Now y ou can add y our own. Click the ‘ Impor t ’ button. 5 Br owse to the PKCS#12-for - mat certicate le and open it. Y ou will be pr ompted for the location of the PKCS#12- format certicate le (le extension will be .p12 in UNIX/ Linux, .[...]

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    P A GE 26 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE USING MY .IRONKEY .COM    Y our Ir onK ey supports advanced cr yptographic authentication using strong PKI k ey pairs gener - ated in the Ir onK ey Cr yptochip . When you log into my .ironk ey.com fr om y our device, it uses these unique k eys as y our digital identity crede[...]

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    P A GE 27 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE 4 Monitoring account activities The Account Dashboard sho ws you the r ecent activities on your account, such as logins, failed passw ord attempts, and when y our device pass- wor d has been r ecover ed. 5 Enabling Account Aler ts for r eal-time account monitoring Y ou can enable a number of Account Alerts for addition[...]

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    P A GE 28 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE USING Y OUR IRONKEY IN READ-ONL Y MODE       Y ou can unlock your Ir onK ey in a r ead-only state such that les on y our Ir onK ey cannot be ed - ited. An example of when this is useful is when you want to access a le on y our Ir onK ey while using[...]

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    P A GE 29 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE Pr oduct Specications CAP A CITY* 1GB, 2GB, 4GB, 8GB SPEED * Up to 30 MB per second r ead speed Up to 20 MB per second write speed DIMENSIONS 75mm X 19mm X 9mm WEIGHT 0.8 oz W A TERPROOF MIL-STD-810F OPERA TING TEMPERA TURE -40 C , +85 C OPERA TING SHOCK 16G rms ENCR YPTION Hardwar e: 128-bit AES (CBC-Mode) Hashing:[...]

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    P A GE 30 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE What’ s next? In many wa ys, that’ s up to y ou. W e are f ocused on building not only the world’ s most secure ash driv e, but also enabling technologies that are simple and enjo yable to use . Y our feedback reall y matters to us, and we carefull y re view all f eature r equests and customer feedback for pri[...]

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    P A GE 31 IR ONKEY USER GUIDE Contact Information Pr oduct F eedback F eatur e Requests feedback@ironk ey .com featur erequest@ir onk ey .com Ir onK ey Online IronK ey Support https://my .ir onk ey.com https://suppor t.ironk ey .com https://learn.ironk ey .com suppor t@ironk ey .com https://suppor t.ironk ey .com 5150 El Camino Real, Suite C31 http[...]