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Cross-Platform Encryption?

Posted by Cliff on from the lowered-barriers-for-information-protection dept.

Dr. Sp0ng asks: "I'm sure a lot of Slashdot readers carry around USB keychain drives or other portable media. What cross-platform encryption solutions have you found for these? The ideal solution would be something which can create a true encrypted disk image in a file, along with Windows and OS X (and perhaps even Linux) standalone executables which can mount these without requiring you to install anything. Obviously something like GnuPG could be used, but it won't let you create an actual mountable filesystem. There are plenty of Windows solutions, and Mac OS X users can simply create an encrypted DMG, but are there any cross-platform solutions out there?"

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  1. What the hell is wrong with you? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    He specifically asked for a cross-platform solutions and not a Windows-only solution.

  2. Re:A simple solution by Trepalium · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Even if you didn't have to decrypt the files to open them, there's a good chance a directly opened file from a compressed volume might make it to the pagefile unencrypted (or to temporary files in %TEMP%). Depends on what risks you're willing to take. If you're just transporting files between trusted machines through untrusted areas, this may be perfectly fine (e.g. USB flash drive on a keychain). If you expect your files to be secure just because they're in an encrypted state on the disk, you might be disappointed.

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  3. Re:Previously on Ask Slashdot... by aCC · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A pretty much identical Ask Slashdot from two years ago

    Exactly. 2 years is definitely too old.