[X4U] New toy!

[Charles Howse]

> On Nov 25, 2005, at 11:13 AM, Charles Howse wrote:
> 
>> My nephew gave me an IMB 512MB USB 2.0 Memory Key!
>> Cool, it's the first memory stick I've had.
>> 
>> I just love my PowerMac...I inserted the stick, noticed that the
>> lights
>> inside started blinking, and Bam! there it was on the desktop,
>> mounted and
>> ready!
>> 
>> It came with several Windoze apps to encrypt the contents, which,
>> of course
>> I can't use.
>> 
>> I'd like to be able to somehow secure the contents, and be able to
>> use the
>> stick on any computer (Mac, Windows, Linux, etc.).
>> 
>> Any suggestions for strategy and applications?
> 
> This won't be available to other systems, but on OS X you can create
> an ecrypted disk image and then put your files in that and then copy
> that over to your memory stick. If you make the disk image smaller
> than the total size of the memory stick, the rest of the space would
> then be usable to other systems, but not the disk image itself.

OK, understood.  
I've done a little research, and it looks like there isn't anything I can do
if I want to encrypt the files on my Mac, and then decrypt them on a PC.