I don't remember exactly how I did it but I encrypted the USB external drive I use for my time machine backup. I probably did it with Disk Utility. All I remember is it seemed to take forever for a 1 TB partition.
You might also look for PGP aware tools like gpg (gnu privacy guard). That is used lots on linux systems for encrypting email, files, disk volumes, etc. On May 13, 2013, at 12:29 PM, Georgina Joyce <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Chris, > > I'm sure you'll find something if you search for: > > how to encrypt files on usb from linux > > I just found this link: > > http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-how-to-encrypt-and-decrypt-files-with-a-password.html > > Or > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2039218 > > I can't remember how I digit some years ago on GNU Linux. I hope you find > something in those links. Interesting discussions. > > HTH > > Gena > > > On 13 May 2013, at 03:06, Chris Gilland <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello all. >> >> So here's the predicament. I have a little Kingston USB data traveler 1GB >> thumb drive. I love this thing as it's not even the normal pin stick side >> flash drive. This thing is literally the size of the pad of your thumb. >> It's incredible! Anyway, I have some documents I've typed up both in Text >> Edit, as well as a few things I've done in Pages. I also have a few >> documents I sometimes open with Numbers which I created in Excel on my >> Windows machine. Furthermore, there are some private e-mails with account >> details, a few payment receipts, a few legal documents which I won't >> disclose the specifics of on list, a few pictures, and maybe a few audio >> files. I also have a folder on there with basically all my serial numbers >> to the software for Windows, Linux, and the Mac that I've bought over the >> years. Plus all of my Windows CD product keys which I own... obviously >> legitimately, I'm not stupid... and even my jaws ILM 20 character code. >> Obviously the point is, suffice it to say, we're talking, very! sinsitive >> data. I'm not so much concerned of password protecting this drive where it >> won't mount without a password. Now, granted, that would be really awesome, >> I'll give that to you, but I want something even a bit more secure than >> that. I'm wonderring if there is a program I can use which will encrypt the >> data in such of a way where it could only be readable from my macintosh >> system, or for that mind a system which has the valid encryption key/file on >> it. This way if my drive was to some how, god forbid, get stolen, all that >> could be done is to wipe the drive. There would be no way that the suspect >> could get at the data, if they tried. >> >> I also, have my journal on this drive which dates back with entries from the >> last 20 years. It's about 600 pages all total. Needless to say, there is >> stuff in there, I'd! die! if someone read and found out about. Not that I >> got anything per sey to hide, but it is! a journal, and it's thus my! >> private thoughts that I don't want others reading, case closed. >> >> Does anyone know how I could get this to work the way I want, or at least >> some similar algorithm that would probably suffice? >> >> Chris. >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
