Hi, just wanted to discuss your edits of the IronKey page. I've been trying to make it clear on the article page that a cheaper equivalent to an IronKey can be created using software based full disk encryption along with a couple of other pieces of software. What exactly is it about this that you disagree with? Thanks. — Endareth^Talk–Edits 09:49, 24 January 2010 (UTC)Reply

The software alternatives to Ironkey do give effectivly the same functionality. You're just trying to misrepresent them by trying to play this fact down. XFireRaidX (talk) 23:33, 26 January 2010 (UTC)Reply

Software based full disk encryption gives the the same functionality as the Basic model IronKey. The Personal and Enterprise models add a lot of extra features that require more than just adding disk based encryption, and hence are not functionally equivalent. Adding further software on top of the straight full disk encryption gets you closer and closer to the Personal/Enterprise models, though I must admit I'm not aware of any current straight software solution that replicates the Enterprise model (there are a couple of other commercial flash drives that do). I'm simply trying to put accurate information for comparison purposes. I haven't once tried to hide or remove any information regarding this, I'm actually glad that someone put in the initial basic edit about software based comparison and just felt it needed further clarification. — Endareth^Talk–Edits 23:59, 26 January 2010 (UTC)Reply

You're misrepresenting things because software solutions also offer significant functionality that ironkey doesn't. You're giving a one-sided view of them XFireRaidX (talk) 00:10, 28 January 2010 (UTC)Reply

I'm not trying to misrepresent anything, simply trying to stick to the facts. I fully agree that different solutions offer different functionality--TrueCrypt's hidden partitions is one I've always considered a winning argument in certain cases. I've just been trying not to put too much in the article which shouldn't really be there (it's not intended to be a comparative article). I've had misgivings about the whole "Similar/Competing Products" section since I was prompted to include it for exactly this reason. It might be better to simply move it out into a separate article comparing hardware/software full disk encryption, or possibly expanding the current software full disk encryption article. If, instead, that section is kept, then it probably does need to be expanded out to list what significant features the IronKey has or lacks that differentiate it from other similar solutions (software or hardware), otherwise comparison becomes fairly meaningless. I feel that incomplete information can be worse than none. Either way, I appreciate your input for this. — Endareth^Talk–Edits 01:25, 28 January 2010 (UTC)Reply