Encrypting Thumb Drives With TrueCrypt
By Randy Jensen | May 5, 2008
Last week I wrote a post on how to encrypt entire hard drives with TrueCrypt. We all know how easy it is to have your laptop lost or stolen and how important it is to protect sensitive data. However, something that is even easier to lose and often has just as sensitive data on it is thumb drives. I know personally I’ve lost a couple of them over time.
Today we’re going to learn how to encrypt these drives to keep them from prying eyes.
Setting Up
Just a few things to get you prepared for the encryption process.
- Grab TrueCrypt if you don’t already have it.
- Make sure your thumb drive is plugged in and move everything on it to your desktop. This is important because TrueCrypt is going to format the drive during the encryption process.
- Open the main TrueCrypt window
