Autonomous data hiding and write protection in ITS key

数据安全和隐私至关重要。一种名为ITS Key的创新产品，一种专用的通用串行总线（USB）闪存驱动器，可以插入计算机，与中央安全服务器通信，允许用户加密，访问和共享他们的文件。然而，由于ITS Key插入主机上的USB插槽，看起来是一个USB存储设备，它的用户经常将其与存储设备混淆，并倾向于在其上存储文件。这种混淆可能会引起隐私问题，因为敏感文件可能会意外地复制到ITS密钥上。一个主要的混淆来自于这样一个事实，即ITS Key上的文件在主机上显示的方式与USB存储设备上的文件一样。因此，本项目将提出、设计和原型化新技术，以对用户隐藏此类文件，以创建空设备的错觉，并防止对ITS密钥的不必要写入。

Data security and privacy is critically important. An innovative product, a specialized Universal Serial Bus (USB) flash drive, called ITS Key, can be plugged into a computer to communicate with its central secure server to allow users to encrypt, access and share their files. However, as an ITS Key plugs into a USB slot on the host machine and appears to be a USB storage device, its users often confuse it with a storage device, and tend to store files on it. This confusion can cause privacy concerns, as sensitive files can be accidentally copied onto an ITS Key. A major confusion comes from the fact that files on an ITS Key are displayed on the host machine just like files on a USB storage device. Therefore, this project will propose, design and prototype new techniques to hide such files from users to create the illusion of an empty device, and prevent unwanted writes to an ITS Key.