User`s guide

USER’S GUIDE
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ENCRYPTED DRIVES
With the Victorinox Secure product, you have a tool for creating
secure, virtual drives that can only be opened using the right password
or fingerprint. These drives are encrypted using AES 256 and
considered very secure.
The actual storage space for these virtual drives is located on your USB
stick, however, is displayed by Windows like a completely normal
drive. Once a drive has been started, you can use it with Windows as if
you had an additional drive.
Please keep in mind that even virtual drives require real storage. This
storage is located on the USB stick under the Virtual Drives directory.
Later, you will find files in this folder with “xsvd” extensions. Each of
these files reserves physical storage space for each virtual drive. If you
were to delete one of these files then you would also be deleting the
corresponding encrypted drive and consequently all of the data stored
in it would then be gone.
CREATING A DRIVE
To create an encrypted, virtual drive, you first specify the name of the
drive in the entry field.
Of course, the password for this new drive should not be forgotten.
Please try to use passwords, which you will be able to remember, but
which should also be “secure”. If you forget your password, you will no
longer be able to access the data on that drive. During application
development, we specifically avoided these types of features for
reasons of security.
The specification of the size of the new drive should be determined
carefully in advance. If you want to use this drive for lots of images or
other large files then it should be significantly larger than if you
wanted to primarily secure text documents. The minimum size is 3 MB.