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* Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypt USB flash drive
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@ 2007-02-05 22:11 99% ` Andrew MacKenzie
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From: Andrew MacKenzie @ 2007-02-05 22:11 UTC (permalink / raw
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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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