USB key encryption

[.sentinel]

I need a program that allows me to encrypt a section of a USB key without a large footprint and it must be able to be used on other machines without installing the app. I would like it to be able to work without administrator privileges. Thanks if you can help me.

[.sentinel]

Bump!

[NWEng]

Unless there is an encryption package native to Windows, what you are describing is password protection. Encryption of this nature (think PGP) is usually based upon a key and specific algorithm (software package) to encrypt the data. To decrypt the data, you require the key and that same specific algorithm to decrypt the data. I believe you are asking for the impossible; but, I've been wrong before.

[[XC] Duc]

Remora USB Disk Guard (http://www.richskills.com/products/7/freeversion.asp)

Free 128bits encrytion, you install it in the root of your usbstick, once installed you can encrypt any file on the computer connected to the USB stick, files/maps on the stick itself included.

Remora USB File Guard (http://www.richskills.com/products/6/freeversion.asp)

More or less the same thing, but can only store encrypted files on your USB stick, not on the computer it's attached to.



Only prob: Remora doesn't work on NT or W95/98, needs W2k or higher.

[Serra]

Unless there is an encryption package native to Windows, what you are describing is password protection. Encryption of this nature (think PGP) is usually based upon a key and specific algorithm (software package) to encrypt the data. To decrypt the data, you require the key and that same specific algorithm to decrypt the data. I believe you are asking for the impossible; but, I've been wrong before.

He's right.

The closest thing I can think of that isn't just password dependant but would actually *encrypt* data on your USB key without requiring any special software set-up would be to use XP's native encrypting abilities and then export your EFS certificate to a file and e-mail yourself that file. Then, when you go to any computer, you could download the file as an attachment from your web-based e-mail provider and install it on the client computer (assuming no GPO's forbid that). Then you can read/write to the encrypted volume. It's messy and it's overly complicated, but it would technically work (on any Windows XP or Server 2003 computer anyway).

[justin_c]

portable truecrypt. go get truecrypt (download and hash just to make sure its correct) and then setup on a computer. then open it and find the section "traveller disk". this will make like a big file of random bits and the files needed to launch. now just launch the exe on the key and enter pass. another volume will show up in windows explorer. this works on admin computers, i have used it at school.