Our articles on portable encrypted storage, including this multi-product overview and a follow-up quick look on another, garnered more attention than we originally anticipated, with multiple other companies wanting to get covered on TechPowerUp. Yours truly happened to be, and still in at the time of this article, in Taiwan riding out COVID-19 here, when we were approached by Untethered Labs, Inc. via their GateKeeper brand. They just so happened to make a hardware security key that utilized their experience in proximity enterprise identity for us PC users, and it fit in well with the encrypted prosumer theme. More importantly, it gave me something to do while away from all my other testing equipment so here we are.

GateKeeper is predominantly an enterprise solution, with case studies and partners around the world offering hardware-based wireless two-factor authentication, password/access management, and even simple login credentials all stored via a key. This key, the Halberd, is the subject of this article, although the company has a software solution for smart phones via the integrated Bluetooth module there. It tells us already, thus, that the wireless technology built in here for connectivity is Bluetooth, with the Halberd employing Bluetooth LE for longer battery life. Excuse the photo quality here, given the travel limitations, and click past the break for more on GateKeeper and how you may be interested in this from the client side of things.