Hi Daniel Thx for your reply. I've been told cryptkeeper will do as I asked as well which is heartening. If that fails then I can try truecrypt. Already have cryptkeeper installed on all my systems so now I just need to test if this works
James Be the change you want to see in the world. Mahatma Gandh On Saturday 15 March 2008 20:30:36 Daniel Mons wrote: > James Takac wrote: > > Hi Guys > > > > Just wondering if there's a way to set the same encryption key on a > > number of computers for cryptkeeper. I ask this cuz I am trying to write > > a book as it were and keeping it encrypted on a flash drive and it would > > be great to be able to move from computer to computer to work on it as I > > need. > > > > James > > Hi James, > > I encrypt my flash drive with TrueCrypt: > http://www.truecrypt.org/ > > I've not used CryptKeeper/EncFS before, and nor do I like suggesting to > people to migrate willy nilly to other software as a quick-fix to their > problems, but perhaps TrueCrypt might suit your needs a little better. > You'll still need to install the base application on whatever machine > you are working on, but it is cross platform, free software (non-GPL and > with a slightly silly license, but still considered free by most) and is > pretty simple to use via a single binary that accommodates both command > line and GUI users. > > Security wise, it is gaining a lot of attention. There are a few USB > flashdrive devices on the market now with TrueCrypt built on to a > read-only portion of the key as their defacto security measures: > http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1547877893;pp;3;fp;4194304;fpi >d;1 > > > -Dan -- ubuntu-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
