Lexar Secure Jumpdrives

[Jeremy Turner]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 10:53:40AM -0600, Brian Densmore wrote:
> My question, would it be possible to reformat the stick with an
> encrypted Linux fs 

Absolutely!  Your USB flash drive works just like a normal "hard drive"
from the view that you can have an encrypted filesystem on it.

I've never done it, but google might help you out.

> and is [if?] so how would I be able to access it from Windows and Macs? 

That's a different question.  I don't know how you'd be able to encrypt
a filesystem and have it be readable in Windows.

> Also, by securing half the card, will I still be able to use the whole
> stick in Linux? 

Sure.  It works just like any other hard drive device that has multiple
partitions.

> Another question, the stick has an autorun script for Windows, if I
> were to wipe the Windows software off of the stick would Windows still
> autodetect the stick and mount it?

I've got the same Lexar Secure drive, the 128 MB version.  IIRC, the
software included is only for the Windows driver/app for read/write to
the secured partition.  If you can't access the secured partition, then
you run the app, which is saved on the non-secured partition.

I have not experimented with portable encrypted filesystems between
Windows and Linux.  I don't know if there are Windows drivers or
user-space applications to read encrypted filesystems.

Jeremy