want to 'encrypt' one of those USB mobile flash 'pens', like a 64 MB one

[THELAIR]

Anyone know how?

I want it so that when it is inserted into a system, it is secured/encrypted...that way i can store 'sensitive' data on it, like private keys, passwords, other files etc...

but i dont want to put data on there, that anyone could read if it fell outta my pocket kinda thing.

any ideas on this?

thanks

 

[ChefJoe]

The people I heard talking about doing such, they were going to use a program to make a drive image in one part of the drive, so that they could access it from anywhere the necc program to get into it would be unencrypted/in a public area.

 

[ViRGE]

If you have a Mac running OS X, then the simple solution is to put an encrypted drive image on it. Any OS X machine could open it, and with 128bit AES, it's plenty secure for this purpose. As for PCs, your options aren't quite as simple. Have you checked out PGPDisk, which is part of PGP 8?

 

[Placer14]

Actually, there were 3rd party programs that could do this. I saw in MaximumPC about a moth or two ago where they reviewed USB drives. They mentioned a few of theseprogams in there. Might wanna take a look.

 

[bsobel]

I want it so that when it is inserted into a system, it is secured/encrypted...that way i can store 'sensitive' data on it, like private keys, passwords, other files etc...

a) Wrong forum

b) A number of the drives come with software to do exactly this. They keep a copy of the software on the unit in an unencrypted area so you can access it when you go to a 'new' machine and plugin. Once you run the tool and enter the password the rest of the drive becomes unencrypted.

Bill

 

[mcveigh]

use pgp , create a pgp self decrypting folder. I don't know if you can add stuff to it on other computers. so it may be read only for other systems

 

[Lucky]

if you have $$ I saw one of the those pendrives that had a built in fingerprint recognition system that decrypted the data once you put your thumb on it.

 

[THELAIR]

lucky i like the sounds of that... anyone got a link?

 

[axelfox]

the sony usb key drives have them....they are a rebadged DiskOnKey.