USB Stick with Password under Linux

Can some one recommend a USB stick that I can password
protect under
Linux and Windows?

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On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 10:41 +0300, OOzy Pal wrote:
> Can some one recommend a USB stick that I can password
protect under
> Linux and Windows?

I have looked for this to, but not found any. If you are
happy to just
use it with Linux you can use Linux filesystem encryption.
Here is more
information about that:
http://theworldofapenguin.blogspot
.com/2006/12/securing-your-laptop.html#links


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On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 10:41:48 +0300
OOzy Pal wrote:

> Can some one recommend a USB stick that I can password
protect under
> Linux and Windows?
> 

I just purchased a Kingston U3 DataTraveler 1 gig this past
weekend and
noticed it had a password/security function built into it -
however I
am unable to test it in either O.S. right now as it is at my
place of
business - and I'm not!

h
ttp://www.kingston.com/flash/datatraveler_home.asp

That link provides a listing of their various USB
flashdrives, and the
top one is listed as "Kingston DataTraveler Secure
Privacy
NEW! DataTraveler Secure - Privacy Edition " - maybe
that would work as
well?

the datatraveler I purchased has a couple of annoyances
though.

When you plug it in, it mounts two drives, one
"cd-rom" type and
one for your data.  That's for M$ and Linux. I can live with
that.

The "cd-rom" mount doesn't allow you to delete
anything, like a normal
cd-rom.  And according to the instructions, it comes with
preloaded
"apps" on the data mount that can be deleted if
desired.

I found you can delete those apps on the data mount, but
every time you
plug that sucker back in, either in M$ or Linux, it copies
three files
back over from the cdrom mount.  I find that to be rather
suspicious
behavior myself and don't like it.

Other than that - it's really fast.

Hope this gets you pointed in a direction at least.

Steve


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On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 15:49:50 +0200
Amichai Rotman wrote:

> That "cd-rom type" is the U3 fs containing
pre-loaded apps to be used
> anywhere you plug it in. It is actually supposed to be
like this. If
> you don't like it - you should've purchased another
model....
> 
> The reason it's impossible to delete the apps is
because they are
> hard coded to the hardware and the files copied are the
ones it needs
> as read / write access....
> 
> Amichai.

yeah, too bad I couldn't like try it out at the store huh? 
Otherwise I
would have never suspected that something I buy like that
has that
"feature" if you want to call it that.

I can live with it.

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On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 15:49:50 +0200
Amichai Rotman wrote:

> That "cd-rom type" is the U3 fs containing
pre-loaded apps to be used
> anywhere you plug it in. It is actually supposed to be
like this. If
> you don't like it - you should've purchased another
model....

and besides, if somebody can put linux on xbox or re-do the
linux system
on a linksys router - then someday somebody will figure out
a way to
wipe the fs off those flash drives (hopefully) and give you
full control
over the entire storage capability.

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Steve Jeppesen wrote:

> On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 10:41:48 +0300
> OOzy Pal wrote:
> 
> > Can some one recommend a USB stick that I can
password protect under
> > Linux and Windows?
> > 
> 
> I just purchased a Kingston U3 DataTraveler 1 gig this
past weekend
> and noticed it had a password/security function built
into it -
> however I am unable to test it in either O.S. right now
as it is at
> my place of business - and I'm not!
> 
> h
ttp://www.kingston.com/flash/datatraveler_home.asp

According to their white paper the encryption functions are
windows-only. The dual-mode DTS will work as a plain vanilla
USB thumb
drive as long as you have a public "zone" set up,
and the DTSP won't
work at all under Linux. To be precise the little
compatibility table
says "Not Supported".

I'd say that and fact it's hardware encryption means this is
because
the management/authentication program is windows only. You
*might* get
wine or such to run it, but at that point you're screwing
around so
much in my opinion that you're way better off using another
thumb drive
and Truecrypt. It's almost certainly cheaper, and you can
move the drive
between Win/*nix boxes as long as Truecrypt is installed on
the box
(requires admin privledges which leaves some people out in
the cold at
work, school, etc...)

Note: Truecrypt also has a "treveler mode", but
I'm not familiar with
it so I don't know if it has the same limitations as the
DTS/DTSP
drives above. I believe it also requires admin privledges to
load its
driver on a host machine, so buyer be ware.

> When you plug it in, it mounts two drives, one
"cd-rom" type and
> one for your data.  That's for M$ and Linux. I can live
with that.
> 
> The "cd-rom" mount doesn't allow you to
delete anything, like a normal
> cd-rom.  And according to the instructions, it comes
with preloaded
> "apps" on the data mount that can be deleted
if desired.

This is probably because of some partitioning scheme used to
hold the
authentication application(s) and the data itself. Wild
guess here, but
the "CD-ROM" mount is probably read-only because
of some default
data-protecting NTFS mount. The "data" area of the
drive is likely
formatted fat32 so it's mounts read/write.

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