Brute Force Hacking Detection; How To Reset The Datashur Personal - iStorage Datashur Personal2 User Manual

22. Brute Force Hacking Detection

If both Admin and User PINs have been created and a User enters an incorrect User PIN 10 (ten) consecutive times, the
datAshur Personal brute force mechanism will trigger and the User PIN will be deleted. All data will remain on the
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datAshur Personal and can only be accessed by the Admin entering the correct Admin PIN.
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If Admin enters an incorrect Admin PIN 10 (ten) consecutive times, then both the User and Admin PINs, the encryption key
and all data will be deleted and lost forever. The datAshur Personal
need to be formatted before it can be reused.
The table below illustrates the different PIN set-up states and what happens when entering an incorrect Admin or User PIN
incorrectly 10 (ten) consecutive times.
PINs Set-up
PIN used to unlock
on datAshur
datAshur Personal
Personal
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Admin & User
PINs
Admin & User
PINs
User PIN Only
Admin PIN Only
The datAshur Personal , unlike other similar drives, incorporates a random number generator, once the drive is reset a new
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encryption key is randomly generated.

23. How to Reset the datAshur Personal

In the event both the Admin and User PINs have been forgotten, or the user wants to delete all data stored on the
datAshur Personal , please follow the instructions below.
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The reset process will clear all cryptographic parameters including both User and Admin PINs. This means the
datAshur Personal will revert back to the default User PIN set as11223344 - see section 4 on page 6 on how to change the
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User PIN. Also, since this will force the creation of a new encryption key, the datAshur Personal
(see section 24 or 25).
Caution: Resetting the datAshur Personal
What happens after 10 consecutive incorrect PIN entries?
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The datAshur Personal
will be deleted.
User PIN
All data will remain on the datAshur Personal
the Admin entering the correct Admin PIN.
The datAshur Personal
Admin PIN and Admin PINs, the encryption key and all data will be deleted and lost
forever.
The datAshur Personal
User PIN
the encryption key along with all data will be deleted and lost forever.
The datAshur Personal
Admin PIN
PIN, the encryption key along with all data will be deleted and lost forever.
will then revert back to factory default settings and will
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brute force mechanism will trigger and the User PIN
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brute force mechanism will trigger and both the User
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brute force mechanism will trigger and the User PIN,
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brute force mechanism will trigger and the Admin
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will delete all data stored on the drive.
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and can only be accessed by
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will have to be reformatted
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