Salve Lance,*! I just saw your question today when I first saw the FDE ML (after SD news about the blackest black...) and as student I'm active with OpenMoko community and I thought that a Linux Smartphone, free hackable like OpenMoko/Neo1973 could be a soulution for your wish:
Lance wrote on March 4, 2007 11:34:48 CST: > I'm looking for USB memory sticks that can support > self encryption. Specifically a hardware solution that > > - Can encrypt data on the USB device regardless of OS type (work with > Linux, Win32, or Mac). > - Can work without software being installed on the computer. > > Are there any solutions that can support this? If not, whats the > closest we can get? Have you heard about OpenMoko (on OpenEmbedded based Linux system) and the Neo1973 a GSM phone, the first device running OpenMoko? see: http://www.openmoko.com http://www.openmoko.org FIC has get some real smart guys to develop the first real free Linux smartphone (beside the Trolltec Greenphone isn't so free) like Harald Welte (GNU violations) and this guys take care that OpenMoko/Neo1973 will be real hackable and the kernel free of source close binarys - so the device will be quite trustworthy. The interesting point for you that the USB 1.0 I/O could behave as host or as device. So I expect that this device will allows you to plug it via USB and be virtualy a mass storage device with FAT (or any other Linux supportet FS). The Smartphone Neo1973 itself has 64 MB flash and one microSD slot, running with a 2 GB card (tested) and maybe with up to 4 GB(?). By having an ARM9 and Linux it is easy to use encryption of your choice - maybe in combination with a cryptocard pluged via USB.... Then an aplication would help you to choose the files you want to have accessable via the virtual mass storage device. E.g. going into a copy shop I would like to make only the files I want to print accessable - and when somebody whants to give me a file, I want only that he can write to my memory without accessing my data... Of corse a smart phone is more than you original wanted and the cost of 350US$ +shipping is much more than you probably thought about, but I think that this linux smartphone will fullfill your wishes of encryption on a USB memory device.... This days the first 36 Neo1973 will goes to first developers outside FIC - so there is no working solution for your wish yet, but I expect that it will be hackable and running in some weeks ;) I also expect that linux-vserver.org will run on OpenMoko/Neo1973 so you can have jails ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on this device :) Two disadvantage for your wish with the Neo1973: - no USB 2.0 - no powered USB port, so you can't plug in USB devices without a battery powered USB-hub So when you are interested in, I'll test your wish with OpenMoko/Neo1973 and give you response here on the list in 2-3 weeks. Questions/Feedback are welcome ;) Greetings, rob _______________________________________________ FDE mailing list [email protected] http://www.xml-dev.com/mailman/listinfo/fde
