The Kingston IronKey™ Keypad 200 series are OS-independent hardwareencrypted USB Type-A and USB Type-C®¹ drives with an alphanumeric keypad for
easy-to-use PIN access.
The KP200 incorporates XTS-AES 256-bit hardware-based encryption. It is
also FIPS 140-3 Level 3 (pending) certified for military-grade security with
enhancements that further elevate the bar for data protection. Its circuitry is
covered by a layer of special epoxy that makes it virtually impossible to remove
components without damaging them; this tough epoxy stops attacks against the
semiconductor components. The drive is designed to be tamper evident to alert
owners. It also incorporates brute force password attack protection, and BadUSB
protection with digitally signed firmware. The alphanumeric keypad is coated
with a layer of polymer that protects the keys and hides key usage through
analysis of fingerprints on the keys.
The KP200 series utilises a built-in rechargeable battery that can be used to
unlock the drive first without using any software, and then plug it into any device
that supports USB Type-A or USB Type-C mass storage device. This gives users the
most flexibility across different platform types and operating systems.
With the Multi-PIN option (Admin/User), the keypad can be used to set up an
easy-to-remember but hard-to guess alphanumeric PIN for the Admin or User
accounts. Admin can restore a User PIN and provide access to the drive should
the User PIN be forgotten, or if the drive is locked after reaching the maximum of
10 User login attempts. With both Admin and User PINs enabled, KP200 will lock
the User PIN after 10 failed login attempts; if the Admin PIN is entered incorrectly
10 times in a row, brute force attack protection will crypto-erase the drive, destroy
the data forever, and reset it.
The drive also provides two levels of Read-Only (or Write-Protect) modes – a
Global mode that can be set by Admin, and a session-only mode that can be
set by User. Read-Only modes can protect the drive from malware on untrusted
systems. In addition, Admin can load content and set Global Read-Only mode, so
that User can access the data but not make any changes