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3/17/2008 5:37:51 PM EDT
I'm looking for some freeware (I'm a noob and dont want to waste my money yet) to encrypt a 2 gb flash drive.  Whats the best and easiest way to do so on a shoe string budget?  Thanks.
3/17/2008 5:44:22 PM EDT
[#1]
they just released a new version
3/17/2008 6:18:38 PM EDT
[#2]
Thanks I actually tried that one.  It seems that I have to run the program to get the encrypted part to open up.  Is there a way to use an encrypted flashdrive on a PC that doesnt have truecrypt installed?
3/18/2008 2:08:06 PM EDT
[#3]
Is PGP still good for encryption?  I've been using it for years.  
3/19/2008 12:51:59 AM EDT
[#4]

Quoted:
Is PGP still good for encryption?  I've been using it for years.  


Yes; I still use it occaisionally..
3/19/2008 1:07:03 AM EDT
[#5]

Quoted:
Thanks I actually tried that one.  It seems that I have to run the program to get the encrypted part to open up.  Is there a way to use an encrypted flashdrive on a PC that doesnt have truecrypt installed?


Install TrueCrypt to the drive in "Traveller Mode".  

So long as you can run TrueCrypt from the drive itself, you will be able to access the encrypted partition.

If you're on a machine that won't let you run unapproved executables, then I think you're fairly SOL.
3/20/2008 5:51:56 AM EDT
[#6]
Portable Freeware
3/20/2008 6:03:46 AM EDT
[#7]
Most of the thumb drives that claim to be secure (by having a fingerprint reader on them, or a numeric code, etc) are utter crap and their security can be bypassed. Most don't even actually encrypt the data.

Go with truecrypt or pgp.

-Foxxz
3/20/2008 4:43:53 PM EDT
[#8]
As others have suggested, it's hard to go wrong with TrueCrypt.  Unfortunately, "traveler mode" requires admin privs, which makes it mostly useless unless you control all the machines you'd want to run it on, and can thus grant yourself admin rights, in which case you may as well just install TrueCrypt on those machines normally.

PGP is OK but it sounds like you're looking for a disk encryption tool like TrueCrypt.