William Kenworthy wrote:

Hi Dale, I looked at Veracrypt and ran into the fact that it on windows
Veracrypt MUST be installed by an administrator which is a blocker for
using USB keys on computers I don't control (such as transporting files
securely between locations - i.e., where there is potential to lose the
usb key):

see
https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Using%20VeraCrypt%20Without%20Administrator%20Privileges.html

BillK

Does that mean that on windoze a person can open a encryted USB stick without a password? From what I read, it sounds like it doesn't put the stick at risk, as long as you are not using key files or sharing your password by storing it somewhere. It just means you have to be admin to install Veracrypt but not to access a encrypted USB stick. From the way it sounds, you insert USB stick, run Veracrypt, enter password, do what you want with the stick, close it and then remove the stick. Or am I missing something?

I might add, when I use cryptsetup and mount a external drive I use, I do that as root. Since my password is only in my head, no password, no access root or not, right?

I'm new to this encrypted thing. I'm learning but don't know all of it and may never know all of it. I figured out the other day that when I select a two part or three part encryption, it actually encrypts the thing twice or three times. It's like having to pick two or three locks on a door instead of one. Only they have to be done in order and you don't really have a way to know if you did it right until you figure out the rest. I bet that drives the NSA and other Govts nuts. lol

By the way, the USB stick will have instructions about things after I'm buried or whatever. I plan to keep the USB stick in a safe and share the password with the person that will be taking care of things. When I'm gone, they can open the USB stick to access files on what to do and such. Until I'm gone, they won't know what is on the stick or have access to it. Getting older makes one think about these things. :/ External drives will have things that when I'm gone, they gone too.

I just wonder how many encryption tools have been cracked that we don't know about. It's not like they going to tell us or anything.

Dale

:-) :-)