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Encrypted Thumb Drives

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1N0V471V

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