On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 12:02:55PM -0800, peter.clark at tides.com wrote:
>         I'm interested in getting some sort of USB flash memory device,
> exemplified by M-System's DiskOnKey. There's also Agate's Q USB and
> JMTek's USBdrive, but the first advantage to DiskOnKey is that it
> doesn't require drivers, just a fully USB-aware OS. Only problem is the
> price: the cheapest was $45, before $13 s+h. For 8MB of memory, that's
> not a lot of bang for the buck. It hasn't hit eBay yet, either.
>         So, does anyone know of a local store that sells these things,
> or of another similar product? The USBdrive is supposedly twice as slow,
> although the cheapest is $40 and comes with 16MB mem. The Q Drive is $70
> for 16MB mem.
>         I would like to use it to store PGP/GPG keys (I'm starting to

How fast do you need to read that pgp key from the device? My .gnupg
dir has 28k...

> get interested in such things, now that they are threatened--funny how
> that works) and other stuff that I might want to keep on me at all
> times. The downside is that there doesn't seem to be any access
> protection such as passwords or file system encryption, so if it were
> lost, then anyone could view it. Suggestions/work-arounds welcome.

Cross-platform encryption? Don't hold your breath.

OTOH you can choose a password for your secret key.

florin

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"If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is."

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