Hi could yawl please add something like this to the portable apps list?
Password protection for USB drives, thumb drives, external drives and memory cards.
One-Click protection.
Portable standalone application, independent and does not require installation or administrative rights on the other end. And can unprotect the data by entering the password again.
Plug and Play supported.
Fool proof without backdoors.
Fast and Easy to use.
And has a saving owner's detail info feature, for if lost and found. So that the finder can know haw to get it back to the right owner.
It needs to keep all files hider, delete proof and totally inaccessible to the finder.
And 100% hack proof.
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Hi could yawl please add something like this to the portable apps list? Password protection for USB drives an external drives.
September 7, 2013 - 6:38pm
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Hi could yawl please add something like this to the portable apps list? Password protection for USB drives an external drives.
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If you want real fool-proof encryption that works on every PC and doesn't require admin rights. There is only one solution: a hardware encrypted flash drive. And we offer the PortableApps.com Carbide to fill that niche.
Having full-drive encryption you can run apps from that doesn't require admin rights is technically impossible on Windows by design. You need admin rights to mount a drive letter. No ifs ands or buts. Period. End of story. The only way around that is to pre-install the software that lets you do it on a given PC (TrueCrypt can do this). But, you need admin rights to install said software, of course. So, you can't use it on any PCs you don't already have admin rights on.
You can use something like TrueCrupt or FreeOTFE so you can encrypt the full drive. Both are solid and fully open source. Both require admin rights, of course. FreeOTFE also offers FreeOTFE Explorer for when you don't have admin rights. It lets you use a Windows Explorer-style interface to be able to move files into and out of the encrypted container so you can use them. You won't be able to mount it as a drive letter, open files directly from it using any other app or run any portable apps from FreeOTFE Explorer, though.
There are other paid apps that claim to offer encryption but they usually either do just what FreeOTFE Explorer does for free or they move files into and out of a similar encrypted container on 'lock' and 'unlock'.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
Mostly I just want something like the u3 password protection, but for the portable apps launchpad.
And has a saving owner's detail info feature, for if lost and found. So that the finder can know haw to get it back to the right owner.
The U3 password protection was a software tool to trigger a *hardware* lock or encryption (lower end drives just had a 'lock' that prevented mounting, higher end ones had hardware encryption).
So, again, what you want is hardware encryption on a drive. There are lots of different types of hardware encryption. The Carbide is top of the line encryption and unique in that it requires no software to lock/unlock (so it'll work with your TV, etc). Another drive folks know is the IronKey drive which is a hardware encrypted drive that uses a software app to perform the unlock (much like U3 did). There are other encrypted drives that do this, too, but be careful... many now come with a software-only solution which claims to lock files or can simply move files into/out of an encrypted container (much like 7-Zip does) and are NOT full hardware encrypted/locked drives so you can't use them for apps in a secure area like you can on Carbide et al.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!