[ale] Encrypted USB flash stick

[Jim Kinney]

I've been using veracrypt lately. I also have a easy mount partition with
instructions and the binaries needed for all platforms. The gianormouse
password required to unlock the encrypted partition is not stored with the
device.

I use this for work to ship multi-TB external hard drives with sensitive,
controlled data by FedEx. Fastest way to transfer 48TB is still by truck.
On Apr 30, 2016 3:42 PM, "Chris Fowler" <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:

> I ran out of space on my keychain USB drive so I grabbed a 128GB from
> Frys.  I encrypt these.  I have a method that might be strange.
>
> 1.  Create 2 partitions.  One is only 512MB in size and is vfat.  Other is
> ext4.
> 2.  Using cryptsetup I create the device.
> 3.  Format the device ext3/4.
>
>
> On the first partition I store the PDF of the web page with instructions
> on how to create an encrypted partition, mount it, etc.
> No where I store the password.
>
> My odd thought is if I died someone would see the doc, figure out what I
> had did, and then mount it.  They would need to know my password.
>
> For this 128GB I think I'll make that sda1 larger so I can store a Ubuntu
> 16.04 iso image, Syslinux, and my bootable system.  Use grub2 to boot one
> of those options.  The rest is encrypted for my backups.
>
>
>
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