Google I/O:A Secured Computer Kept in the MicroSD Card,Project Vault

On the second day of Google's annual developer conference, the company announced Vault project, as little as the memory card team. Yes, you heard me right. It's a safe equipment that fits into a microSD card.

It was designed by ATAP of Google (Advanced Technology and Projects) group. The Vault project is not for regular computer and instead introduces new ways to communicate and authenticate safely without entering passwords. It has a system based on ARM processor and an antenna NFC. With 4GB of 'isolated, sealed' internal storage, a custom real-time operating system (RTOS) it runs.

In the I / O, Google gave a demonstration of how two users can chat with each other through their smart phones equipped Vault. Google says that these talks will be encrypted and chat data is not sent through the phone. This will ensure that nobody is snooping on your sent / received messages.

With Vault, one need not enter any password and the new security model is reportedly able to authenticate users based on their typing patterns, activity and so on. "confidence score" is called, which according to Google is up to 10 times safer than entering a password.

Following whistleblower Snowden revelations about the NSA, this feature might take Centrestage when it comes to issues relatated snooping. The company has placed on Github SDK for developers to build applications for the new project