Locking folder on USB drive

[Patton Echols]

On 03/02/2010 07:50 AM, Erik Pomerantz wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 01:00 -0800, Patton Echols wrote:
>> On 02/28/2010 08:14 PM, epomerantz at gmail.com <mailto:epomerantz at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello all,
>> >
>> > I would like to password protect a folder in a Pen drive. Because I need to use this both at work (w/ M$) and a home computer (Linux) I want to be able to keep the data secured. I found Truecrypt and FreeOTFE to be overkill and too complex and I would like to see of anyone has any suggestions of a much simpler but still universal security system?
>> > Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
>> >
>> >   
>> I confess I have not used truecrypt on my linux box, but I have used it 
>> on windows and frankly it's pretty easy.  Once installed you fire up the 
>> software, tell it how large a container you want to create and follow 
>> instructions.  Once the container is created, double click, give it a 
>> password and it mounts, treat it like any other partition. 
>>     
>
> I managed to do this process just fine but following up is where I got
>  a bit confused and probably made a few mistakes. After finishing, a  
>  second removable media was found.(makes sense since there are now 2  
>  different partitions) so i put some data into the new encrypted partitions and unmounted both  
>  parts of the drive. The next time i go to mount the USB, I take notice that the  
>  GUI shows up as a combination lock instead of the typical removable media.

That sounds right so far.

>  When I
>  acessed the drive I was expecting to be prompted for a password but
>   instead everything I had put into both partitions were completely
>  exposed. Did I mess up somewhere?
>   

It sounds like you may have saved the password, or didn't create one in 
the first place.  You may want to open up the control panel for 
truecrypt and check the settings.  As I mentioned, I have not used TC on 
ubuntu, so I don't know the details of how to do that.

I also have copied this reply back to the list.  I think that is always 
the best practice because someone may (very likely!) know more than I.

--PE