Encrypted Thumb Drives

[1N0V471V]

I have searched Google extensively but have not yet gotten any definitive answers. What I need is a thumb drive which has encryption software onboard but doesn't need adminiatrative privelages to run. I have found some things but they're either inconclusive or contradictory. Basically what I've read is that some onboard software needs admin rights while others do not. It's the others which I need at the moment as we cannot and will not grant people admin rights just to use a few thumb drives (only a few people in our organization actually need them which is why we're searching for a secure way to transfer data). Price isn't an issue but we shouldn't need anything with more than 1GB of storage capacity. Performance really isn't a huge deal either. Thanks and if possible share some first hand experience with how the overall process is (Is it seemless? Intuitive?).

 

[Goi]

Ever thought about hardware based encrypted thumb drives? Would those need admin rights?

 

[covert24]

try U3. its on some of the high end thumb drives.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I second the idea of thumb drives with hardware crypto.

The problem with software crypto, is if they have to mount an encrypted partition, then they need to load a device driver to do so, and in order to load the device driver, they need admin privs.

Theoretically, with hardware crypto, there is a front-end app that takes a password and then passes it on to the thumb drive, which likely doesn't need admin rights.