From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G5Crp-0000QU-QK for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 02:41:54 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6P2efA9023426; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 02:40:41 GMT Received: from alnrmhc11.comcast.net (alnrmhc13.comcast.net [206.18.177.53]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6P2a0Ar024673 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 02:36:01 GMT Received: from spinner (c-69-249-7-96.hsd1.nj.comcast.net[69.249.7.96]) by comcast.net (alnrmhc13) with ESMTP id <20060725023557b1300fk0ehe>; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 02:35:57 +0000 From: Jerry McBride Organization: TEAM-GENTOO To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Howto Encrypt a USB-key [gentoo-windows] Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 22:35:56 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607242235.56126.mcbrides9@comcast.net> X-Archives-Salt: 02088bc7-2780-4928-98ad-bea52d8dbb7b X-Archives-Hash: 124626fdf88206344a8f48598c854174 On Monday 24 July 2006 19:50, Javier wrote: > Hi there, > > now I'm working on some projects and I store all files in a usb key. I > have the necessity of encrypt the data. The problem is this data have > to be accessible from windows workstations and linux workstations. In > the windows workstations there is no problem of installing things as > admin but in the linux machine I have no root access. > > I only have found a solution but is very ugly, encrypt each file using > gpg. There is a better choice? > Forgive me... The easiest and best answer is to format the windows boxes to use Linux. Then buy a pizza and some beer for the admin and ask for him/her to setup loop devices where ever you need them. End of problems. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list