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 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list