Encryption options and suggestions or installed Dapper

[Jay Stapleton]

I'll second truecrypt I've used it with great success.  You can also use 
it on a USB disk in "portable mode" which means you can view your files 
on any Windows machine, as well as your Linux box.

It has a number of interesting features, such as the ability to encrypt 
two different file sets in the same file.  That way even if someone 
forces you to reveal your password, you can give them the one, and they 
won't know they aren't seeing everything.

-Jay.

Dennis d'Entremont wrote:
> I've used TrueCrypt (http://www.truecrypt.org/) in the past. It allows 
> you to encrypt a whole driver or you can allocate a certain amount of 
> data to a "file" and encrypt that. I haven't used it on any memory 
> sticks but there might be documentation on the site about it.
>
> Cheers!
> D
>
> On Dec 7, 2007 2:13 PM, Ralph Pichie <thevillagegeek at gmail.com 
> <mailto:thevillagegeek at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I have an updated installation of Dapper on an Acer notebook that
>     I occasionally use for contract work.
>     I want to encrypt at least part of the data on it, and likely also
>     a couple of USB thumb drives, possibly an ext3 partition on an
>     external hard drive as well.
>     Note: I am NOT interested in doing a fresh install at this time.
>
>     What have the experiences been with encryption? Any recommendations?
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