Patent ID: 8001387

Claim:
A storage device with biometric access, comprising: a biometric scanner adapted to scan a biological feature of a user to provide a corresponding extracted biometric template; and a storage engine including a pseudo-random number generator, the storage engine adapted to decrypt encrypted content stored on a removable storage medium, wherein the encrypted content is encrypted according to at least one content key; the storage engine being adapted to perform the acts of: retrieve an encrypted biometric template from the removable storage medium and retrieve an encrypted content key from the removable storage medium; retrieve a media identifier from the storage medium; generate a first key using the pseudo-random number generator; generate a combination key by combining the first key with the retrieved media identifier; decrypt the encrypted content key using the combination key to recover the content key; decrypt the retrieved encrypted biometric template using the content key to recover a retrieved biometric template; and decrypt the encrypted content stored on the removable storage medium using the content key to allow a host device access the resulting decrypted content on the removable storage medium if the extracted biometric template matches the retrieved biometric template.