Re: Securing a USB stick

On 2 Sep 2006 11:30:36 -0700, "Jon" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Stephen Poley wrote:
I have been hunting for a good solution for a while. But everything I've
looked at so far suffers from at least one of the following problems:

1) the encryption program has to be already installed on every computer
where one will use the USB stick (or at least one has to have admin
privileges on every computer); one can't run it directly from the USB
stick;

2) the program does not state which encryption algorithm is used (which
typically means it's a useless home-brew job) or its security is
otherwise in question;

3) when encrypting a directory tree, all the files are thrown into a
single directory, making the extraction of a single file a pain.

Can anyone recommend a product which doesn't suffer from these problems?

Check AxCrypt

http://axcrypt.axantum.com/

Thanks - I'll give it a try.

--
Stephen Poley
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