Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypt USB flash drive
On Tuesday 06 Feb 2007 05:06:29 Thomas Lingefelt wrote: > > 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/ > > Seems to be exactly what I'm looking for. I'll start implementing > tomorrow morning. Maybe by the time I get a Mac it will have been > ported. Thanks! It would be nice if you could post a HOWTO to the wiki, if it doesn't exist already. I haven't checked yet.. -- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net pgphK9abt0mtt.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypt USB flash drive
Andrew MacKenzie wrote: >> 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/ > Seems to be exactly what I'm looking for. I'll start implementing tomorrow morning. Maybe by the time I get a Mac it will have been ported. Thanks! Thomas -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypt USB flash drive
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 04:09:45PM -0500, Thomas Lingefelt wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > 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. -- Oscar Wilde pgp1mU887d2ll.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypt USB flash drive
> 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/ -- // Andrew MacKenzie | http://www.edespot.com // GPG public key: http://www.edespot.com/~amackenz/public.key // "The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some // point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment // us without end, for they do with the approval of their consciences." // --C.S. Lewis pgpCCITb54ge0.pgp Description: PGP signature
