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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 the |
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stick at risk, as long as you are not using key files or sharing your |
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password by storing it somewhere. It just means you have to be admin to |
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install Veracrypt but not to access a encrypted USB stick. From the way |
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it sounds, you insert USB stick, run Veracrypt, enter password, do what |
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you want with the stick, close it and then remove the stick. Or am I |
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missing something? |
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I might add, when I use cryptsetup and mount a external drive I use, I |
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do that as root. Since my password is only in my head, no password, no |
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access root or not, right? |
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I'm new to this encrypted thing. I'm learning but don't know all of it |
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and may never know all of it. I figured out the other day that when I |
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select a two part or three part encryption, it actually encrypts the |
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thing twice or three times. It's like having to pick two or three locks |
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on a door instead of one. Only they have to be done in order and you |
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don't really have a way to know if you did it right until you figure out |
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the rest. I bet that drives the NSA and other Govts nuts. lol |
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By the way, the USB stick will have instructions about things after I'm |
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buried or whatever. I plan to keep the USB stick in a safe and share |
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the password with the person that will be taking care of things. When |
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I'm gone, they can open the USB stick to access files on what to do and |
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such. Until I'm gone, they won't know what is on the stick or have |
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access to it. Getting older makes one think about these things. :/ |
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External drives will have things that when I'm gone, they gone too. |
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I just wonder how many encryption tools have been cracked that we don't |
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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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