Encrypted USB Drives

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  1. JK2447
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    Hi All, just wondering what my fellow IT Professionals use to encrypt their USB Pen Drives? I use an Ironkey Personal that I'm very happy with.

    Do you use software encryption or hardware? Just fancied a general discussion on encrypting USB drives TBH.

    Jim
     
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    Truecrypt here.
     
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    Ah yes, I plan to have a play with hiding a partition using true crypt when I get my new personal laptop. How do you find it? What is the impact on performance like?

    Any BitLocker users our there care to comment? I hear nothing but good in terms of recovery and TPM support
     
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    I haven't done a whole drive yet, only my USB drives and it is pretty transparent once you have mounted it.
     
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    Same :)
     
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    My pocket, my fist, and my foot. :kar If you can make it through all that protection, you can have my data.
     
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    Ha ha ha I like your style Michael, hopefully your method of encryption stands up to a brute force attack 8)
     
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    Depends on how many brutes are attacking. :p

    But first... they gotta catch me! :twisted:
     
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    I use Bitlocker and i dont have any complaints.
     
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