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On 22/3/20 2:29 am, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: |
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> Dale, |
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> On Saturday, 2020-03-21 13:01:01 -0500, you wrote: |
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>> ... |
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>> Thing is, if I |
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>> give it to someone who uses windoze, can they just put in the password |
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>> and open it or does it have to be on the original system? |
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> They just have VeraCrypt to be installed and they have to know the cred- |
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> entials, which may be a password and/or a certain file on each system. |
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>> Basically, I'd like to transfer |
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>> files from one system to another but it be encrypted while in transit. |
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>> I use Linux, they use windoze tho. That make sense? |
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> I do exactly that: transfering files from Gentoo to Windows and back. |
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> And if anybody else would try to read the USB stick they would only find |
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> white noise on it. |
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> Sincerely, |
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> Rainer |
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Good point - securestick leaves the "structure" of directories visible |
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on the standard exfat FS but encrypts the files in place. My view is its |
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"good enough" for my purposes and while veracrypt is better - it wont |
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work in my use case. |
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BillK |
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