Why You Need Data Encryption on USB Drives
USB flash Drives are meant for portability. By their vary nature they can be easily carried away by you, and if you lose them, then by somebody else.
If you happen to carry sensitive and personal data on your USB drives, then you can imagine how easy it is for somebody to get access to that data, in case you lose a USB Drive. Consider using data encryption tools for safeguarding your data in case of any enatuality.
Rohos Mini Drive – A Free USB Data Encryption Tool
Many times data encryption sunds something geeky to an average user, and that is the reason precisely people do use it. But believe me, data encryption is not so dificult. There are specialized tools, which make your life easier and allow you seamless usability. You may not even be knowing that your data is getting encryption before getting stored on your drives.
Rohos Mini Drive is one such tool, specially designed to create hidden and encrypted partition on the USB flash drive memory. You work with the files on the hidden partition without opening a special program.
Rohos Mini Drive program does not create real partition on the USB flash drive. Thus when you insert your USB drive into USB port only one drive letter will appear in Windows. Second (secured) drive will appear only after you active it by entering a password.
Main Features of Rohos Mini Drive include:
- Creates a virtual encrypted partiton volume (disk) within a USB flash drive free space
- Automatically detects your USB stick config and creates encrypted partition
- Program does not require installation to work with encrypted partiton on a guest computer. You can start it right from USB drive
- Encrypted partition is protected by password
- Encryption is automatic and on-the-fly
- Encryption algorithm: AES 256 bit key lenght. NIST approved.
- Rohos Disk Browser to open encrypted partition without having Admin rights
- Virtual Keyboard – to protect your encrypted disk password from a key logger
- Autorun Folder. Saved program’s/file’s shortcut will automatically start/open up upon disk connection
- The limit of encrypted partition size is 2 GB
June 16th, 2009 at 11:18 pm
Silki, I have many confidential information, and I mostly marked it down on a notebook, as I’m afraid to keep the files in my desktop! However, I think my problem is permanently solved, after I downloaded this Rohos Mini Drive.
Thanks for the great stuff!
June 23rd, 2009 at 4:55 am
It’s also important to consider the security of your end points. The data on your computer can be precious to your competitors.