Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypt USB flash drive

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypt USB flash drive

[Andrew MacKenzie]

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> Hi. I'm looking for a portable (Linux, *BSD, Mac, Win) way to carry
> around encrypted files on a USB drive.  I would like for the
> encryption/decryption to be transparent to me, so something that I can
> mount would be great.  I know pretty much how to do encrypted file
> systems on Linux, but don't know of a way to do it under Windows that
> would be compatible.  Something with AES256 or better would be
> preferable.  Mac compatibility is not too much of an issue at
> the moment, but I do plan to buy one in the future.  Thanks much.
I've been using truecrypt between Windows and Linux for just this purpose
and it works great.  Not so sure about MacOS though.

emerge app-crypt/truecrypt

http://www.truecrypt.org/

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Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypt USB flash drive

[John J. Foster]

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On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 04:09:45PM -0500, Thomas Lingefelt wrote:
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> Hi. I'm looking for a portable (Linux, *BSD, Mac, Win) way to carry
> around encrypted files on a USB drive.  I would like for the
> encryption/decryption to be transparent to me, so something that I can
> mount would be great.  I know pretty much how to do encrypted file
> systems on Linux, but don't know of a way to do it under Windows that
> would be compatible.  Something with AES256 or better would be
> preferable.  Mac compatibility is not too much of an issue at
> the moment, but I do plan to buy one in the future.  Thanks much.
> 
I've been using 

http://www.freeotfe.org/

on the windows side for a little over a year with no issues.

festus
-- 
Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's
original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been
made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
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