ssh clarification needed

Mike Cloaked mike.cloaked at gmail.com
Sun Jan 4 16:46:25 UTC 2009




Anne Wilson-4 wrote:
> 
> 
> Hmm - Is there no reasonably safe way of doing this?  There seems to be
> some 
> risk with everything.   I've not lost a usb stick yet, but one can never 
> guarantee that one won't.
> 
> 

By the way one can make an encrypted usbkey - I randomised a usbkey along
the lines that mail-lists described, and made a luks encypted file system on
it - and once done then plugging it in to F9 or F10 it asks for the
passphrase (luks) and then mounts it - you then just use it like any other
usbkey and umount it as normal - but if it does get lost it would be near
impossible for someone to get at the contents! Anyone dealing with
transferring sensitive data on a usbkey would be well advised to use this
kind of technique - it would certainly reduce the risk in the classic
publicised cases of "25 million account details lost when usbkey owned by
bank manager is left on train seat" stories! 
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