Lexar Secure Jumpdrives [and Linux support]

[Brian Densmore]

On a new note. I contacted Lexar and told them I needed the
software and they sent me the software for Linux, Mac and
Windows. So there is a way to use the Lexar JD secure under
Linux. Not that I would consider an XOR security algorithm
secure. So Lexar encryption hardware does appear to be 
compatible with Linux.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Densmore 
> Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 12:20 PM
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: RE: Lexar Secure Jumpdrives
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jason Clinton
> > 
> > ... The Lexar encryption hardware is not compatible 
> > with Linux; it's 
> > done in hardware and, IIRC, it's extremely simple (easy to 
> > crack) but no 
> > device driver exists. ...
> 
> Well this is at least partly not true. Linux did recognize the
> device and both the fat16 partition and the encrypted partition.
> Unfortunately, I played around with it and couldn't delete the 
> partitions and rebuild it from inside Linux. I also managed to delete
> all files on the drive and can no longer access the hidden partition
> in Windows. Although, Linux now sees it as one fat16 partition and
> on Linux partition. I may have to google or call Lexar to find out how
> to wipe of the hidden partition. So what I have now is one Windows
> usable partition and 2 Linux usable partitions. Strange, fdisk and
> cfdisk both have no problem is deleting the partitions and 
> creating a new
> one and saving the new partition table. But, once I exit 
> fdisk or cfdisk
> it goes back to the way it was before.
> 
> 
> Brian Densmore
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