I have a question to you programmers...
You know that encryption need access rights so it is not really portable...
But everybody is requesting to password protect info in Pdrives...
So, is it posible to have portableapps and documents folders in a password protected 7zip file and when launching the Pmenu ask for password automatically, open the 7zip run apps, etc, and when closing, save changes in the password protected 7zip, erase the opened one with a secure deleter automatically (and then eject the drive)?
Just thinking in solutions... 
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That would be very very slow. Unless you're on a portable hard drive. In which case it would just be very slow.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
rofl and lmao!!!
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If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report
If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report
...just ROFLMAO.
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I've been holding off posting this info as I really wanted to compose a review of this USB portable hard drive, but I'm just not finding the time.
Anywho, if you really want protection for your files, get this drive.
http://www.apricorn.com/product_detail.php?type=family&id=38
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Nah - this one here seems to be really secure (if a stick is sufficient):
https://www.ironkey.com/
Man! this is too much... I just want to prevent my secretary or my colleagues to access my PDrive... I'm not carrying the plans to attack the Death Star...
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If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report
If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report
The sad thing is, that this drive is one of the few solutions that offer a simple (o.k. here a real good one) password protection that is truely portable (in a sense of no admin-rights required). Another one is the Kingston Secure series (which even offers to choose from a fully encrypted drive - like the Ironkey - or a split one (partially-encrypted, partially public) which even makes it bootable).
The only software solution offering password protection without admin rights seems to be FolderLock. But it is payware and I do not know whether it can be trusted security-wise. The actual version 5.7.5 suffers from a severe bug which allows one to simply copy the programs folder to another place and thereby gain control over files that should be locked away. But I' ve been told that this will be fixed in the upcoming next version...
I don't like Folder lock because it doesn't let me autorun Apps directly from the folder when open it...
If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report
Ha ha ha.... In fact I *do* keep the Death Star battle plans on my IronKey
Seriously though, while the IronKey is super-secure, we did pay a ton of attention to making it easy to use, work in non-admin mode without software, making it very fast, and very reliable.
This turns out to be really difficult. There's a reason there aren't many great solutions out there. It took IronKey 2 years, 20 engineers, and many millions of dollars to build what they have. That included many months of 7 days per week, 16-18 hour days for the engineering team. It sounds easy, but it's really hard to deal with all the edge cases to make this kind of thing work seamlessly.
Dave
https://portableapps.com/node/8315#comment-46529
Vintage!
OCZ has a handy little utility.
http://www.ocztechnology.com/drivers/FORMATv3017A.EXE
I use Encript on clic, is a small program that is very useful 4 encripting sensible files, it's not so sure against hacker attacs but against normal people works fine
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Is this driver for???
If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report
I use Dekart's Private Disk: www.dekart.com
Downside is that you have to have admin authority on a first run.
Benefits include: encryption on the fly, you can launch the Portable Apps Menu when the disk is unlocked and mounted, and easy to make a secure backup.
The best solution to security on all USB devices would be if Microsoft took the TrueCrypt open source code and built it in to the Windows platform. From a technical point of view, this would allow EVERYONE to mount a volume and a drive letter to store and retrieve documents securely -- no Admin access required by the end user.
Now, I do not know what licensing implications there would be for Microsoft to incorporate GPL licensed code, but wouldn't that be great? Just plug your USB into any Windows computer and bingo -- instant security for your apps and data.
-IP
Actually, now that I think about it, all Microsoft would have to do is include the "truecrypt.sys" driver and load it by default for my scenario above to work.
-IP
If Microsoft were to support TrueCrypt, you would still want hardware key storage to prevent password brute-force guessing attacks. Also you'd need linux and Mac to support it for true portability.
"hardware key storage to prevent brute-force guessing attacks ?"
What do you mean ?
are you implying that it is possible to brute-force
a 62-character pass-phrase without inventing some new energy-source first ?
(Hell will freeze over before M$ starts "bundling"
a Open-Source driver with their OS.)
Microsoft already uses OpenSource, though rather covertly.
They use what they can. For example, they use libpng quite a bit.
Vintage!
If we know it is 62 characters, that definitely makes the job easier.
The trick is to make sure your passphrase is the last one tried in a brute force attack. If it is the first one I happen to try, it would have been only a few seconds to break in.
MC