Phantomdrive Keeps Your Secrets Out Of Sight

Phantomdrive is an open source USB flash drive with a hidden secondary filesystem encrypted with AES-256. The CH569 chip handles decryption internally, making it platform-agnostic with no software required on the host machine. Authentication is done covertly: the firmware monitors write operations to the unsecured partition for a 'password:' string, then unlocks the hidden volume if the key matches. The creator notes it hasn't been professionally audited and should be treated as an experimental concept.

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