Posted: 5/13/2017 5:25:09 PM EDT
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I'm trying to create an emergency document USB drive for my the key chains of me and the wife.
It needs to be readable on both android devices and windows PCs but encrypted to prevent loss of data if the drives go missing. Obfuscation is not an option. I'm worried about individuals, not governments in the event the drives are lost. I have about 20 GB of scanned documents and photos We both have sandisk usb OTG drives ( https://goo.gl/sfEJrF). I've been using VersaCrypt for Windows which works great if the whole world was windows. There is a portableapps version of VersaCrypt which will mount and decrypt the volume and you can view the PDFs, images and other documents just fine. While there are several android apps out there that will read a VersaCrypt volume, they seem to have issue with directly accessing the OTG drive. I can read the files from the USB using various android file managers. Due to the size of the encrypted volume containing the files, I cannot copy locally to phone :( Any suggestions would be appreciated! |
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I'm trying to create an emergency document USB drive for my the key chains of me and the wife.
It needs to be readable on both android devices and windows PCs but encrypted to prevent loss of data if the drives go missing. Obfuscation is not an option. I'm worried about individuals, not governments in the event the drives are lost. I have about 20 GB of scanned documents and photos We both have sandisk usb OTG drives ( https://goo.gl/sfEJrF). I've been using VersaCrypt for Windows which works great if the whole world was windows. There is a portableapps version of VersaCrypt which will mount and decrypt the volume and you can view the PDFs, images and other documents just fine. While there are several android apps out there that will read a VersaCrypt volume, they seem to have issue with directly accessing the OTG drive. I can read the files from the USB using various android file managers. Due to the size of the encrypted volume containing the files, I cannot copy locally to phone :( Any suggestions would be appreciated! Why did you put your post in code tags? |
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Good question and I noticed that myself after I posted.
I originally composed the message in Evernote - then copied and pasted into the editor here. Must be some sort of non-visible text encoding. Since I don't post much it didn't occur to me until after I submitted it. |
| I have a found a solution that will work. A product from the UK - Kruptos 2 - seems to support every platform but Linux. The android app is free but the USB version is $20 - works for me. Also it does not appear to have issue using USB OTG drives as a datasource. The files are encrypted individually and doesn't use disk volumes. I can read the files from anywhere now but they are still relatively secure in the event the drive is lost. |
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Good question and I noticed that myself after I posted. I originally composed the message in Evernote - then copied and pasted into the editor here. Must be some sort of non-visible text encoding. Since I don't post much it didn't occur to me until after I submitted it. |
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