USB security

With my up and coming jaunt to sunnier climes, I was thinking of putting
various things on a USB stick, and was going to encrypt it, so I could
use it in relative safety and not be knackered if it got nicked

What's the best way to encrypt it ?

Windows XP and the USB stick is 32Gig

 

Truecrypt.org

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Dunno, but I have 'USB Disk Pro' on one of mine (came with it).
--
+----------------------------------------------------------------+
| Pete Fisher at Home: |
| Voxan Roadster Gilera Nordwest * 2 Yamaha WR250Z |
| Gilera GFR * 2 Moto Morini 2C/375 Morini 350 "Forgotten Error" |
+----------------------------------------------------------------+

 

Truecrypt, or zip it with a password if you don't want to install
anything.

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Zip it with a password isn't exactly what I'd call secure. More an
annoyance.

 

Istr reading something yonks ago about passworded zip files being very,
very secure. A brute force attack would do it, but take so long
(assuming a strong password) that nobody would bother. Things could of
course be different now.

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That may be the case, but you can see the list of files contained in the
zip without requiring the password; in most cases, that's enough to
determine whether the extra effort required to find the password is
worthwhile.

 

Just stick everything in a directory called 'My Theology Thesis' & zip
that - sorted!

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Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique,

"'Ere sarge! This bloke's go t a 45.7 terabyte readme.txt!".