Encryption options and suggestions or installed Dapper

[Bob Jonkman]

Last week I thought I had lost my thumbdrive.  When I found it again I was so happy I immediately 
encrypted it with TrueCrypt, running in Portable mode right off the stick itself.  Wonderful 
software, easy to use, (almost) completely unobtrusive.

Now that I've taken steps to protect the data in case I ever lose it again, I'll never lose it 
again.

--Bob.



This is what Jay Stapleton <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com> said
about "Re: Encryption options and suggesti" on 7 Dec 2007 at 20:08

> 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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