This sounds like a security risk item

[den4]

http://www.akibalive.com/archives/000586.html
just lose one of these hankos at the local IT dept and that could really mess up your day in Japan.... :D

hankos are ink stamps that have the last name on it, and this is used in the place of a signature...most establishments require this (or a fingerprint) as your signature, and without out, you are hosed...

this just looks like a bad idea waiting to come true..... :D

[RockLee]

wOOOt ! Digital hanko :D ...I got a hanko when I was in Japan ! for newyearspresent hehe :-)

[GaijinPunch]

I still don't see how it works. What data is stored on the FLASH memory? FYI -- you're screwed if you lose a normal hanko anyway... there are some horror stories about it... yet Japanese are still too petrified to go to the signature system.

[den4]

some traditions are hard to break....or is it considered a habit now...? :D

[Hiroyuki Nagashima]

This machine seems to use it for electronic seal software
http://www.iodata.jp/prod/usbmemory/novelty/2004/ed-name32/index.htm

I used translation software and tried to translate an explanation of electronic seal software of i/o data.
Electronic seal software
Data security I code a file, and to divide into plural files is soft.
I use the latest cryptographic technology not to be able to decode original data from remaining data if I follow even one among the data which I divided.
If I save it and carry it, "EasyDisk" cannot decode a file without "EasyDisk" with one slice of division data.
I forward one part of division data by an email and can protect the whole file from decoding of the third person by carrying remaining division data in "EasyDisk".

I can set a password.
I cannot decode it without a password by any chance even if it is assumed that all the division files leaked out.
Paperless を realization of an office!
I can seal it with the easily electronic seal which it is easy for an electronic seal software "電印 パソポン Lite" word and Excel, a PDF file.
Sealed sentence data are locked and can use it as simple security because there are not a revision and a change.
I am useful for becoming paperless of an office by introducing it in a mass


I have a name stamp, and it is (JITU IN)
This name stamp is registered with a government office.
It is the name stamp which was sent than father when I came of age.
This name stamp uses it for an important contract.
When I am not so important, I use a name stamp of non-registration.
It is "MITOME IN".