Lightweight encryption recommendations?

[UnknowVector]

So, a couple of things:

1. Any opinions on the flashdrives that (attempt to?) provide encryption (e.g. http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/290410/Kingston-DataTraveler-Vault-Privacy-Edition-USB/)?

2. Does anyone know of a sold, well-respected lightweight on demand encryption program (so it would encrypt and decrypt each file separately when it was told to do so)? It would only need to know how to use the AES-192 algorithm, or something equally trustworthy.

I'm gonna be away from my home computer almost all summer, and my files won't necessarily be in the safest of places (e.g., living in a flashdrive). Yeah, poor homeless files. They need a fuzzy blanket of encryption to stay warm.

O, and I saw this while browsing Office Depot's merchandise listing, http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/148785/Edge-4GB-DiskGO-Biometric-Flash-Drive/, omg, fingerprint scanner on a flashdrive. Yeah, its 136 bucks.

 

[Varine]

You could cipher it?

 

[UnknowVector]

You mean the windows command line command? It only works on files on NTFS drives, most flash drives (including mine) are formatted FAT32.

 

[Prometheus]

Format over it?

 

[Rapmaster]

http://www.truecrypt.org/ is supposedly pretty good

The Windows encrypting file system (EFS on NTFS) aka cipher command is pretty solid but it isn't really designed to be portable. It ties into certificates that are part of your profile on the computer.

 

[UnknowVector]

Thanks, I'll take a closer look at TrueCrypt.

 

[DDRtists]

http://www.newsoftwares.net/folderlock/

That has the ability to set up locks on flash drives and portable media. I've personally used that program and it's quite nice.