On 22/3/20 12:53 am, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
Dale,
On Saturday, 2020-03-21 08:06:35 -0500, you wrote:
...
Mind if I'm nosy for a minute. I'd like to store files on a USB stick
that are encrypted as well. However, I'd like it to be able to work no
matter what OS is used. I googled but thought it was not possible. You
seem to have found a way to do this, broken at the moment but there's hope.
For what it's worth, I'm successfully using VeraCrypt (the successor of
TrueCrypt) on both, Windows and Gentoo, to read and write encrypted USB
sticks.
See "https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Home.html"; for their web site and just
emerge "app-crypt/veracrypt".
Sincerely,
Rainer
That would have been my preference but I am a user on an enterprise
locked down version of windows (probably lucky they let me use usb!) -
the securestick webdav approach sidesteps the fact that windows
encryption (as almost all usb encryption in apps on windows like
veracrypt crypt do) goes through the kernel so it (in my case) has been
used to enforce policy which is only aimed at the common security risks
(so has it has left some holes :) The alternative I used previously was
an encrypted archive copy'd back and forward. With Securestick I can
sync using unison on this side, and a windows app on the other.
BillK
* if there is something better than securestick out there, like Dale I
would love to hear of it!
