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William Kenworthy wrote: |
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> On 6/7/20 2:37 pm, Dale wrote: |
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>> William Kenworthy wrote: |
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>>> Hi Dale, I looked at Veracrypt and ran into the fact that it on windows |
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>>> Veracrypt MUST be installed by an administrator which is a blocker for |
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>>> using USB keys on computers I don't control (such as transporting files |
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>>> securely between locations - i.e., where there is potential to lose the |
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>>> usb key): |
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>>> see |
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>>> https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Using%20VeraCrypt%20Without%20Administrator%20Privileges.html |
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>>> BillK |
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>> Does that mean that on windoze a person can open a encryted USB stick |
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>> without a password? From what I read, it sounds like it doesn't put |
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>> the stick at risk, as long as you are not using key files or sharing |
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>> your password by storing it somewhere. It just means you have to be |
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>> admin to install Veracrypt but not to access a encrypted USB stick. |
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>> From the way it sounds, you insert USB stick, run Veracrypt, enter |
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>> password, do what you want with the stick, close it and then remove |
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>> the stick. Or am I missing something? |
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> It means that an administrator must install veracrypt first - if you |
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> cant do that, you cant access the stick. It also makes the point that |
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> any adminstrator will have access to the sticks data - not just the |
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> user (same as root under Linux). The blocker for me was that I could |
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> not get veracrypt installed. |
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Ah I see what you are saying now. It's a privately owned laptop so that |
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won't be a issue. She may even use a desktop system. |
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>> I might add, when I use cryptsetup and mount a external drive I use, |
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>> I do that as root. Since my password is only in my head, no |
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>> password, no access root or not, right? |
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> Maybe, maybe not ... |
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>> I'm new to this encrypted thing. I'm learning but don't know all of |
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>> it and may never know all of it. I figured out the other day that |
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>> when I select a two part or three part encryption, it actually |
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>> encrypts the thing twice or three times. It's like having to pick |
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>> two or three locks on a door instead of one. Only they have to be |
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>> done in order and you don't really have a way to know if you did it |
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>> right until you figure out the rest. I bet that drives the NSA and |
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>> other Govts nuts. lol |
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>> By the way, the USB stick will have instructions about things after |
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>> I'm buried or whatever. I plan to keep the USB stick in a safe and |
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>> share the password with the person that will be taking care of |
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>> things. When I'm gone, they can open the USB stick to access files |
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>> on what to do and such. Until I'm gone, they won't know what is on |
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>> the stick or have access to it. Getting older makes one think about |
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>> these things. :/ External drives will have things that when I'm |
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>> gone, they gone too. |
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> Paper in a sealed envelope in a safe (bank safety deposit box etc) ... |
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> too many things to go wrong with an encrypted USB. |
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Don't have a bank safety deposit box and even if I get one, that will |
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cause issues when I kick the bucket. |
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>> I just wonder how many encryption tools have been cracked that we |
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>> don't know about. It's not like they going to tell us or anything. |
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>> Dale |
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>> :-) :-) |
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> Yep :) |
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> BillK |
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I'm just hoping the newer ones, after Snowden, don't have back doors |
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etc. Now let us pray. ;-) |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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