Suggestions for cross-platform encryption?

From: Colin B. (cbigam_at_somewhereelse.nucleus.com)
Date: 01/07/05

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    Hey folks;

    I've just picked up a USB flashdrive, and want to keep some fairly sensitive
    stuff on it (passwords, etc.) encrypted. However, I'm almost constantly
    moving between machines and platforms, and generally can't install software
    on them. What I would like is a symmetric encryption utility that is:

    a) cross-platform (Solaris, Windows, Linux, Mac OSX)
    b) Standalone (don't need to install a package on each machine)
    c) Small (binaries for all the platforms don't take up the majority of
       my drive space!)
    d) Free (ideally)
    e) Relatively secure (better than Unix 'crypt,' for a start)

    Is there anything that meets all of these requirements? PGP would work,
    but packages and libraries run well over 10MB for each platform, and I'm
    not sure if it works without being locally installed. (Not to mention that
    it's massive overkill for what I want.)

    Thanks!
    Colin

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