Biometrics and/or password.
The password is never registered on the peripheral, only the SHA-1 number of it.

A limited number of attempts can be defined, for both the biometrics and the password. When this number has been reached, the peripheral is blocked.

Only the owner of the secured partition has access. An administrator can not access the user’s private partition. This assures that the stored information can not be read by the administrator.

A personal key is attributed to each user during the creation of the account.

The encrypted key can, during the creation, be stored in a secured container.

The enryption on the fly is done on the key before entering the secured partition of the user. No trace is left on the PC.

256Bit key. Standard algorithm of advanced encryption.

A secured partition for each enrolled user. The only visible partition is that of the authenticated user. The other secured partitions remain invisible.

The size of each partition can be determined by the administrator.

The administration software and the unlocking tools can be deployed via the XELIOS Admin Tools Server or by a SMS application.

Administrator and user. A user can only change the enrolled prints, the password, or delete his account. The other functions such as the size of the partition, the number of attempts, user enrolments, can only be done by the administrator.

The administrator can restore the original settings of the peripheral, and delete all user accounts.

Each user has a "private store", invisible on the PC and created on the peripheral. The user’s Private Store can be used to load sensitive data, such as a certificate x.509, confidence profiles, password containers etc. The information on the Private Store is encrypted with it’s own key.

It is necessary to have the administrator rights for the computer to be able to install the management and encryption software. In this way, companies have more control over where and how the Secure Bio Drive is used.