Password protection for USB portable drive

donalt · Joined: 16 May 2006 Posts: 97

I got my first USB portable drive the other day, and it was a long time coming… I was surprised, though, to see a note in the back saying that it "supports password protection", because I got no encryption software or anything like that with the drive. How does password protection for portable drives work, anyway?

edgardo · Joined: 31 Jan 2006 Posts: 28

Well, in general it works much like any other password protection utility: It encrypts your data so that no one else can access it unless they've got a password. (Or unless they feel like brute force breaking through 128-bit protection just so they can see the dirty pictures you've got on that portable drive!)
Try downloading a free trial version, like this one: www.magic2003.net

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