Re: [gentoo-user] executing a file on a usb thumb drive

[Dr Rainer Woitok]

Dale,

On Saturday, 2020-03-21 08:06:35 -0500, you wrote:

> ...
> Mind if I'm nosy for a minute.  I'd like to store files on a USB stick
> that are encrypted as well.  However, I'd like it to be able to work no
> matter what OS is used.  I googled but thought it was not possible.  You
> seem to have found a way to do this, broken at the moment but there's hope.

For what it's worth,  I'm successfully using VeraCrypt (the successor of
TrueCrypt) on both, Windows and Gentoo,  to read and write encrypted USB
sticks.

See "https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Home.html"  for their web site and just
emerge "app-crypt/veracrypt".

Sincerely,
  Rainer