Posted: 10/21/2008 9:53:53 AM EDT
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Someone posted a link to a good encryption program for portable HDs. Anyone still have it? I don't need something that NSA can't break just something to protect some sensitive work stuff. |
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A friend who works for the government recommended Steganos. This. |
I always figuered if they found steg on your computer...tat was a big tip off where to look. |
I was thinking partition and encrypt part of it. In that case would the partition not be visible? |
uses AES256....and costs money, and its not open source so its not vetted. Truecrypt for the win. |
Truecrypt....  And the solution to forgetting passwords is this: the goal is to prevent unauthorized disclosure of information. If the password is forgotten/destroyed, there is no increase in risk of unauthorized disclosure. Don't be dumb, don't write it down, and don't use a name, DOB, address, phone #, etc. create an abbreviation which is uniquely significant to you, incorporating numbers and viable symbols. Or...just do what the professionals do and remember the damn thing. |
So I could encrypt the HD and run the program off of a memory stick? |
Yep. This way you can take the portable HD and the memory stick, and be able to use the encrypted hard drive on just about any computer. The alternative is either installing Truecrypt on each computer you plan to use the encrypted hard drive with, or making two partitions on the encrypted drive, with one of them being a small partition that holds Truecrypt. |
Dumb questions time; So you download the program saving it to the flash drive,instead of your c drive, then run it to encrypt the same drive? Then accessing it is a matter of plugging it into a USB port on any computer, clicking on the drive and entering the passcode at a prompt? |
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rtfm start with making a container www.google.com/search?q=truecrypt+tutorial&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a |
