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IEEE 1667

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 16, 2024
Entity authorityQ4041015 ↗
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IEEE 1667 ("Standard Protocol for Authentication in Host Attachments of Transient Storage Devices") is a standard published and maintained by the IEEE that describes various methods for authenticating removable storage devices such as USB flash drives when they are inserted into a computer. The protocol is universal, and thus operating-system independent. It is currently part of Windows Vista (SP2) and Windows 7, Server 2008, Server 2012, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 and Windows 11.

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Further reading

Rich, Donald (2007). "Authentication in Transient Storage Device Attachments". Computer. 40 (4). IEEE: 102–104. doi:10.1109/MC.2007.116. S2CID 6669342.

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This entry incorporates text from “IEEE 1667” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.