Comments on: How to encrypt a USB thumb drive in Ubuntu

By: Ubuntu, Windows and Drive Encryption « Open Source for the Desktop

Ubuntu, Windows and Drive Encryption « Open Source for the Desktop — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 10:25:04 +0000

[...] Ubuntu, Windows and Drive Encryption 2009 oktober 17 by Jan van de Voort One of the new features of Windows 7 is a feature called Bitlocker. Essentially, it is intended to provide data encryption for sensitive data. By the way, this feature was also available in Windows Vista. The difference here is that Bitlocker in Windows 7 does not necessarily need a specific hardware feature called TPM (Trusted Platform Module): a chip on the motherboard that would store the unlock key to the data. Now what about Ubuntu and other Linux distributions, or even: what about Windows XP? Would there be a free Open Source software that allows encryption and decryption of sensitive data, e.g. for a thumb drive? I just googled for it, and stumbled upon a very fine, Open Source piece of software that does the job for Linux, Vista and Mac! have a look at TrueCrypt. You will find the software here. Documentation for the software on the site is absolutely excellent, including some quick start information. For Ubuntu, a very good installation tutorial can be found here. [...]

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:18:51 +0000

at step 29 I get the following error:
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Error: The device uses a sector size other than 512 bytes.
It is currently not possible to create device-hosted volumes on devices that use a sector size other than 512 bytes. However, note that you can create a file-hosted volume (container) on this device.
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could I create the sector size 512 byes?

By: Marcos

Marcos — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:50:10 +0000

Hay alguna manera de que el montado/desmontado del USB se haga de forma Automatica tanto Windows como en Ubunutu?

By: AlesZib

AlesZib — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 07:03:46 +0000

I was just wondering, can I use such encrypted USB on other PCs. I guess they need to have TrueCrypt instaled? Is it possible to have the program for both ubuntu and Windows on a USB and run it from there (they of course should not be encrypted)?

By: gnuman

gnuman — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:31:52 +0000

Great tutorial on how to use TrueCrypt to encrypt a USB drive.