Password Protected Pen Drives?
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LED-holic
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baterija
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You can either encrypt the entire drive (requiring it be used on a system with truecrypt installed) or make a large container file and run the portable version from the stick when you want to access it. The catch is both ways require that you have administrator access on the system you are using to access your data.
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To that list I will add, if you wince every time someone refers to a fragile aluminum tube as "tank like."
warlord
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I like Dekart Private Disk Light better. Here are some other choices along with tons of great programs for your portable drive.
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Sub_Umbra
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Drive Crypt (perhaps by the same author as TrueCrypt) offers full military grade encryption in Traveler Mode -- 1344 bit Triple Blowfish.
Fallingwater
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Note that it's a better idea to encrypt the stuff you put on the drives than the drives themselves.
BVH
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You M60 Tankers gotta get yourselves a VSS-1! Come on! You know you want one!
Sub_Umbra
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Are you sure?
As hard as it is to securely delete data from HDDs (Peter Guttman's 1996 "Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory,") to me, at least, the Wear Leveling technology used by many thumb drive manufacturers would seem to mean that any PLAINTEXT created on a USB flash drive would probably be much harder to remove by 'erasing' or 'wiping' software AND those crypto aps that claim specifically to decrypt and then re-encrypt a file the to same disk location (to cover the plaintext.) Wear Leveling would probably mean that an 'eraser' would wipe an area that does not contain the plaintext. For the same reason any encryption ap wouldn't even know that it was not overwriting the plaintext. Wear Leveling would seem to make an already iffy situation potentially much worse.
Transparent, On-The-Fly volumes on a flash drive would, at least, seem to overcome those difficulties since no plaintext is ever written to the thumb drive.
I often use UNIX encryption utes that have also been ported to Win32, which is a handy and portable approach -- but a very long way from perfect. Ya can't win. :sigh:
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