Travel Technology - Looking for safe security for thumb drives and externam HDs

I have been using Lockbox, but just found that when removed from the computer the drive is no longer sealed.

Flashcrypt was suggested, but it takes forever to encrypt any folder on the Drive.

Any suggestions to keep company and personal information secure at a reasonable price and does not take long periods of time to encrypt or decrypt?

Also, it needs to be portable between 3 computers.

Thanks

I have been using Lockbox, but just found that when removed from the computer the drive is no longer sealed.

Flashcrypt was suggested, but it takes forever to encrypt any folder on the Drive.

Any suggestions to keep company and personal information secure at a reasonable price and does not take long periods of time to encrypt or decrypt?

Also, it needs to be portable between 3 computers.

Thanks

This looks interesting: http://www.fspro.net/hide-folders/

I've just installed this on my USB stick: http://www.rohos.com/products/rohos-mini-drive.

You can get fingerprint-secured flash drives - many examples http://tinyurl.com/bvafwh

TrueCrypt is open source, free, and quick.

www.truecrypt.org

This looks interesting: http://www.fspro.net/hide-folders/

Thanks all for your help.

But, I'll copy this post and reply. It is a good product for your C drive...But any external drives lose protection when disconnected from your computer.

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I am very happy with TrueCrypt

TrueCrypt is open source, free, and quick.

www.truecrypt.org

Truecrypt is mandated for laptops around our company. Not doing thumb drives yet, but I can tell the mandate is coming.

Works well, easy to install, will take a few hours to encrypt a big disk. No real problems*

Aidan

* Installed on my eeePC. Can't run a BIOS upgrade because PC expects to see the new BIOS image in the root folder of the C drive, which is of course encrypted. Not too worked up about this.

TrueCrypt would have been my choice except that you need administrator rights on the computer on which you want to use it. If the OP only ever wants to move between 3 computers that's probably OK but I don't want to be limited, hence my choice of Rohos.

TrueCrypt would have been my choice except that you need administrator rights on the computer on which you want to use it. If the OP only ever wants to move between 3 computers that's probably OK but I don't want to be limited, hence my choice of Rohos.

You only need admin rights for using Truecrypt in certain ways. If you can get it installed (which probably does need admin right), then using TrueCrypt with an encrypted container (not full drive encryption) will not require admin rights and will be just as secure.

If you can get it installed (which probably does need admin right)

Exactly - it does. Once it's installed you don't need admin rights any more. But you need admin rights to install it. Hence no good for my purposes but possibly a good bet for the original poster.

TruCrypt works well, however if you're using a cheap USB flash drive with cheap memory, it'll show it off with errors if it find it.

Our organisation uses SafeBoot for laptops, and I'm pushing for use of SafeSticks... a nice level of encrption on those devices as far as i can see - plus a nice protection level if the drive is lost - after attempting the password a number of times, it wipes the drive :D

For the truely paranoid among us, there is always Ironkey (https://www.ironkey.com/). I've been using it for about a year and it seems to work pretty well. Never had to test out the security features though ! :)

I had a USB drive for a while that had ten tiny buttons on it. You had to enter a code before it would let you read or write data. I don't recall the name. It's in some drawer somewhere. I was keeping my pin numbers on it. It was a good solution for me because it worked on any of my computers without installing special software.

I like TrueCrypt and I am not sure admin rights are needed. The way I use it, I don't need admin rights.

I have the TrueCrypt executable on USB drive, and I use the executable to open a TrueCrypt file on the same drive. Since the file is visible to anyone who has access to the drive, I use a hidden volume in that file to up the security a bit.

TrueCrypt works quite well but I only use it on files I am truly paranoid about. Having to key in a super long passphrase is kind of inconvenient.

Since the file is visible to anyone who has access to the drive, I use a hidden volume in that file to up the security a bit.
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You don't get useful security through obscurity...

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Since the file is visible to anyone who has access to the drive, I use a hidden volume in that file to up the security a bit.
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You don't get useful security through obscurity...

The hidden files are also encrypted.