Crypting and protecting a folder in an USB Drive

[mario]

Hi guys,

I just purchased an external USB 2 500Gb Drive.
Now I have to do something on a different folder. I would like to copy
some private data in a folder in the USB drive.
I would like to find a software that would let me to crypt or protect
this particoular folder (and this folder only, not the whole drive). I
would like something that is resident in the external drive so if I
can connect it to another PC the folder would remain protected asking
me a password before access it. The folder should be authomatically
locked whenever I turned off the pc so I would always have it locked
and protected even if I forget to explicitly lock it.
Do you know any software that does it or does something similar?
Any help would be really appreciated!

Thanks a lot

mario

 

[Technobard]

PGP

Credant

Each of these has a way to do file & folder encryption - specific to
what you are looking for.

excelsior

 

[mario]

PGP

Credant

Each of these has a way to do file & folder encryption - specific to
what you are looking for.

excelsior

Well I didn't find anything really useful in none of the aboce,
Credant is business oriented,
PGP has different solution but the only one usable on external drive
is to crypt the entire
drive, thing that I don't want. I just need to crypt single or
multiple folders.

 

[John Wunderlich]

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Hi guys,

I just purchased an external USB 2 500Gb Drive.
Now I have to do something on a different folder. I would like to
copy some private data in a folder in the USB drive.
I would like to find a software that would let me to crypt or
protect this particoular folder (and this folder only, not the
whole drive). I would like something that is resident in the
external drive so if I can connect it to another PC the folder
would remain protected asking me a password before access it. The
folder should be authomatically locked whenever I turned off the
pc so I would always have it locked and protected even if I forget
to explicitly lock it. Do you know any software that does it or
does something similar? Any help would be really appreciated!

Thanks a lot

mario

Checkout freeware TrueCrypt
<http://www.truecrypt.org>
Read the manual's "Traveller Mode" section.
It doesn't protect folders directly, but rather creates a "virtual
disk", mountable via password, that is encrypted on the fly.

HTH,
John