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@kclug.org Subject: RE: Lexar Secure Jumpdrives

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-----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.

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