Password protect/encrypt external drive

[DCurry]

A coworker has asked me if there is a way to encrypt an external USB drive. He wants it to ask for a password when he plugs it into his laptop (so if the drive is misplaced the data is secure.)

Anyone know anything about doing this?

[Ear]

He can get one of these.  :cheesy:

[Joe]

http://www.truecrypt.org/

Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk.

Encrypts an entire partition or storage device such as USB flash drive or hard drive.

Encrypts a partition or drive where Windows is installed (pre-boot authentication).

Encryption is automatic, real-time (on-the-fly) and transparent.

Parallelization and pipelining allow data to be read and written as fast as if the drive was not encrypted.

Encryption can be hardware-accelerated on modern processors.

Provides plausible deniability, in case an adversary forces you to reveal the password:

Hidden volume (steganography) and hidden operating system.

FREE

[born2print]

He can get one of these.  :cheesy:

That's kinda neat, I'm a sucker for low-tech.

[Ear]

He can get one of these.  :cheesy:

That's kinda neat, I'm a sucker for low-tech.

That's what I thought. Being obtuse, but it is kinda cool. Analog protection for your digital shit.

[born2print]

Exactly! Is that wrong?  :cheesy:

[Ear]

It looks wrong but it feels sooo right.  :kiss:

[mattbeals]

TrueCrypt to encrypt the drive or better yet to create an encrypted "partition" that is a visible or invisible file. Using EFS in Windows will work plenty well if he as a digital certificate. People can still see the contents but can't access them unless they have the correct digital certificate.

All sorts of ways of handling it with TrueCrypt or PGP.

[DCurry]

Thanks - I'll pass it on.