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Microsoft Lanuches Wireless Desktop 2000 Keyboard With Data Encryption

Vincent Alzieu
Translator: Catherine Barraclough
June 17, 2011 8:46 AM
Microsoft has released a keyboard and mouse set that comes complete with data encryption to help keep your keystrokes fully confidential.

Data communicated between the USB transceiver and the keyboard is kept completely confidential thanks to 128-bit AES (Advanced Encryption Security) encryption, a system that the US National Security Agency apparently considers secure enough to protect documents classified at levels up to 'SECRET'.



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Wireless Desktop 2000

This encryption system is currently considered to be fully secure. However, one downside of the kit is that the USB transceiver is bigger than standard models. Although fairly slim, it's 3 cm long!

The Wireless Desktop 2000 pack comes with a keyboard loaded with all kinds of multimedia keys, as well as a BlueTrack mouse. This type of sensor technology isn't always synonymous with quality, though, as we saw with the Microsoft Sidewinder X8, and to a lesser extent in the more recent BlueTrack mice we've tested.

So encryption aside, is this keyboard and mouse set any good? We'll be bringing you the answer to that question very soon, as this news story was typed with the Microsoft Wireless Desktop 2000 we're currently testing!

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