Andrew MacKenzie wrote:
>> Hi. I'm looking for a portable (Linux, *BSD, Mac, Win) way to carry
>> around encrypted files on a USB drive.  I would like for the
>> encryption/decryption to be transparent to me, so something that I can
>> mount would be great.  I know pretty much how to do encrypted file
>> systems on Linux, but don't know of a way to do it under Windows that
>> would be compatible.  Something with AES256 or better would be
>> preferable.  Mac compatibility is not too much of an issue at
>> the moment, but I do plan to buy one in the future.  Thanks much.
> I've been using truecrypt between Windows and Linux for just this purpose
> and it works great.  Not so sure about MacOS though.
> 
> emerge app-crypt/truecrypt
> 
> http://www.truecrypt.org/
> 

Seems to be exactly what I'm looking for.  I'll start implementing
tomorrow morning.  Maybe by the time I get a Mac it will have been
ported. Thanks!

Thomas
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