Removable storage medium with biometric access

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;
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• 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.