Review: Secure Flash Drives

Enex Testlab Review

Do it yourself

Hardware-encrypted devices are their own market and if that's the level of security you need, then you need to pay for that level of protection.

If however you just want to encrypt a few files, you don't need anything more than your standard-fare flash drive and some free software.

There are a range of tools available for all the major platforms. For Windows, two good examples are GPG4Win and AxCrypt. Alternatively, you can do whole-partition encryption just like the hardware-based flash drives we tested here (where all data written to the partition is encrypted) using tools likes TrueCrypt and PGPDisk (part of the PGP tools).

 

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