[Novalug] Making a bootable USB stick???

[Paul W. Frields]

On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 18:27 -0400, Rich Goodwin wrote:
> I have a 4GB IronKey and find it extremely useful.  I need to qualify
> this with - it works well with Vista.  There are two partitions on the
> unit - a readonly and secured partition.  The readonly is seen as a
> CDROM.  It contains the Winderz/Mac code to run such as the password
> manager - which is an excellent side benefit since the passwords are
> stored in plaintext and viewable but stored encrypted.
> 
> When they ship the 8GB models, these will be Linux compatible.  There
> are drivers which will be made available.  I need to check this now that
> I am thinking  about it...
> 
> The encrypted partition uses AES 128 CBC.  It is extremely strong -
> stronger than 256 AES CTR.  I will see if there's more I can share
> later.

Everyone may know this already, and it's not cross-platform at all, but
encrypted thumb disks are easy and fun for the whole family:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PaulWFrields/Drafts/Crypto 

...from the ivory and windowless tower.

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