Security for USB Thumb drives

[green_man]

On the windows side, if you get a thumb drive made by SanDisk, they have 
software for thier drives that password protect the drive [FAT32], so 
that it cannot be accessed. I'm not sure how it would behave in Linux.

Joseph Lukasiewicz wrote, On 05/26/05 10:05 PM:

> Don,
>  
> thanks for the info.  My wife got one of these keychain drives from 
> work and was worried about confidential info falling into unauthorized 
> hands. From the FAT side of things I guss you are pretty wide open...I 
> have seen software online but I wasn't sure if it was any good.
>  
> Joe Lukasiewicz
>
> Don Monroe <dpmonroe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     http://bsdnews.org/03/cryptusb.php
>
>     Check out the above link. I know that the above link specifically
>     offers advice for BSD but read the section on the Cryptographic File
>     System. You may be able to adapt it for your linux distrobution, or
>     you could convert to a mature, stable OS like FreeBSD. ;-)
>
>     Best regards,
>
>     Don Monroe
>
>     On 5/26/05, JMcNamara at e1b.org wrote:
>     >
>     > Joe,
>     >
>     > Lexar has a thumb drive with security. It runs about $70 on
>     ecost. It is
>     > called JumpDrive Secure. It worked well for me. It is software
>     protection
>     > enabled on the drive however.
>     >
>     >
>     > Joseph V. McNamara, CCNA, CCAI
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>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > Joseph Lukasiewicz
>     > Sent by: owner-nflug at nflug.org
>     >
>     > 05/26/2005 07:48 AM
>     >
>     > Please respond to
>     > nflug at nflug.org
>     >
>     >
>     > To nflug at nflug.org
>     >
>     > cc
>     >
>     > Subject Security for USB Thumb drives
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > Hi,
>     >
>     > a little off toopic, but as the popularity has increased for
>     these devices
>     > I thought I'd give it a shot...
>     >
>     > I was wondering if anyone has found and used a security utility
>     for USB
>     > thumb drives. Some way to lock down files and/or folders in case
>     the drive
>     > gets picked up by an unauthorized user?
>     >
>     > Thanks in advance.
>     >
>     > Joe Lukasiewicz
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