Slightly OT...

On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 14:32:04 -0500, Andrew Zbikowski <andyzib at gmail.com> wrote:
> OK security experts... ;)
> 
> My situation is I have a USB Flash Drive Keyring thingy (Lexar
> JumpDrive) that goes with me just about everywhere now days. There are
> files there that I do not want anybody to be able to access in the
> event I loose the thing...so obviously my first thought was some sort
> of encryption.


On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 15:26:02 -0500, Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> wrote:
> You should be able to encrypt the zip/tarball file with the GNUPG
> program with AES encryption and NOT use the key scheme.  The NIX
> commandline for such an encryption is:
> 
>         gpg -c --cipher-algo AES256 FILE
> 
> That way you don't have to sacrifice security on account that zip's
> encryption algorithm sucks.  Just remember what the password is, which
> you were going to have to do anyway.

You could always use the built-in AES256 encryption software included
with your JumpDrive, but it's Windows only. Oh yeah, and it stores an
XOR'd hash of your set password ON THE FRIGGIN DRIVE...
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/14/1855232&threshold=2&tid=133&tid=93

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