Blueice228 Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 Please help! I am looking for a software to encrypt files on my USB stick or USB external hard drive. I also want to share this device around with read only access and want to prevent editing or copying of the content without the proper password. THANK YOU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Torolol Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 no such thing as 'prevent copying' if they can be read if first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Barney T. Administrators Posted January 5, 2015 Administrators Share Posted January 5, 2015 http://www.ironkey.com/en-US/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Arachno 1D Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 The trouble with encryption software is unless its baked into the thumb drive firmware it will require admin rights to run on the PC, which is fine for home use but not on a business system.As for not copying using conventional software its not practical as the file is normally unencrypted in the temp folder where in all senses its in plain text. The only way round this that comes to mind would be to have a specially written file reader for your files which decrypts on the fly but not as a standard file type.It would also run a signature check on the file to ensure it hadn't been modified. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Intersect Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 Please help! I am looking for a software to encrypt files on my USB stick or USB external hard drive. I also want to share this device around with read only access and want to prevent editing or copying of the content without the proper password. THANK YOU This might help you with what you want to do http://www.nexcopy.com/usb-copy-protection/ or you could go for the ironkey personal that Barney T has linked to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Blueice228 Posted January 5, 2015 Author Share Posted January 5, 2015 This might help you with what you want to do http://www.nexcopy.com/usb-copy-protection/ or you could go for the ironkey personal that Barney T has linked to. Both ironkey and nexcopy seems to be good hardware solution. But is the software solutions such as http://www.kakasoft.com/usb-copy-protect/ or https://www.protect-software.com/en/solutions/software-protection/usb-stick-software-copy-protection any good? I am most likely going to put in large files of 300+ GB so USB stick maybe too small to fit and I would have to use small external drives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Intersect Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 Both ironkey and nexcopy seems to be good hardware solution. But is the software solutions such as http://www.kakasoft.com/usb-copy-protect/ or https://www.protect-software.com/en/solutions/software-protection/usb-stick-software-copy-protection any good? I am most likely going to put in large files of 300+ GB so USB stick maybe too small to fit and I would have to use small external drives. As others have ponted out with software you will require addtional software installed on each client to make use of the ecrypted containers on the drive where your files are stored. While that is fine for the average home user it is not something that you want to be deploying in a business enviroment. If you have access to share a folder on a network you can set up a shared drive that has the required rights to stop copying etc.. But if you want to share a device around the office then IronKey or nexcopy will suite your needs better. You might be able to find other storage devices that are cheeper but these might not offer the protecion of device like the IronKey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 thunderrooster Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 TrueCrypt or one of its alternatives can mount as read only. DiskCryptor might be able to do that too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 DrDodle Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 no such thing as 'prevent copying' if they can be read if first place. This is true, but what you can do is encrypt the files so reading them will be much harder/impossible. TrueCrypt or one of its alternatives can mount as read only. DiskCryptor might be able to do that too. Yes, TrueCrypt is a good free program to encrypt data and then by password you can unlock the content, I'm guessing this would solve your problem. If you need something even more advanced, then you will need some specialised copy-proetction software. I only know of one company that does this, USB-Cops from Link Data. It's not a cheap copy-protection so don't use this unless you have a good buisness product. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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I am looking for a software to encrypt files on my USB stick or USB external hard drive. I also want to share this device around with read only access and want to prevent editing or copying of the content without the proper password.
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