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CONCEALED CODE CYLINDER
Affiliation:
Free use.
Manufacturer:
Various
Type:
Secure information storage device.Power Supply:
N/A
Sensors:
N/A
Size:
Varies
Composition:
Varies
DESCRIPTION
Code cylinders are an important way of securing and transporting information, and in the hands of a skilled slicer, they can be repurposed to look like everyday objects. A stylus, a power pack, and more besides. Plugging directly into a standard I/O socket, the type most commonly found on droids and computer systems, the storage devices use a secure, high-level, hardware-based encryption system; decryption of the information stored on a code cylinder can be accomplished with a device as simple as a datapad, however, provided that the proper decryption software is utilized.To all intents and purposes, this is a reskin of a Code Cylinder intended to make them easier to conceal.
LEGALITY
Legal, but why are you concealing them.INTENT
To create a secure data storage device befitting any sensitive information that characters may want to transfer, or steal. Code cylinders would also function as the equivalent of an ID card.But they're sekrit.