Hi, I have installed Haiku to an OCZ flash stick ( the model is the rugged type, wrapped in thick rubber). My wife and I like to go on holiday for two or three months at a time and would like to take this stick with us so we can log on in a computer shop and not have to worry about Viruses, malware etc. Security being the main target re logging onto the Bank.
Question: would it be possible to encrypt this stick?
Any thoughts or advice would be appreciated.
cheers,
Eddie.
PS: Not a complaint, but why does Haiku on a USB stick ( A very fast one at that ) take three times as long to boot compared with Haiku on the Hard drive?
You’d have to use some software like truecrypt which does not support the haiku, the reason it takes longer to boot is due to the much sloer bandwidth of usb vrs a native HDD. its still pretty damn quick though. One of the issue you may encounter however is driver problems with booting the usb stick in multiple computers. The best suggestion I have to offer is, bring a laptop and use https protocals. Also using a usb stick as a hdd could cuase the stick to fial quickly.
Potentially however a good number of machines do are not well supportd haiku which could cuase problems and many older machines do no usb boot.
I say bring a netbook or notebook with you hopefully installed with at least one of the major OSes. Use wired internet if available otherwise WiFi and careful to which SSID you connect to. Also use WiFi from a trusted source. And use https not regular http for secure sites (you’ll see the lock).
You can bring a usb drive as backup but better to install some type of compact Linux to it instead. Haiku has no drive encryption.
Gentlemen, thankyou for your replies . The idea of taking the USB/Haiku on holiday was to get away from taking a laptop with us, I only have an 7 yr old Compaq Presario P4 that weighs a ton,( mind you it’s way more reliable than most modern laptops). I use Suse 11.3 64 bit so might look at that as an alternative. Trouble is I have a real soft spot for haiku and before that BeOS.
You can still bring Haiku on USB key but you won’t get encrypted (WPA) WiFi. You may even not get WiFi. Wired networking may or may not work. Haiku may not even boot.
So, bring two (or three) keys with different OSes and that way if Haiku does not work for you then switch to Linux. I still say use Linux while on your trip.
Also realize that to boot USB key has to be set in computer BIOS. I’m not sure if those computers will allow booting from USB and BIOS settings may be locked down. You can also burn a LiveCD (Ubuntu) and bring it as another option but require CD booting enabled in BIOS. Realize that BIOS may be set only for hard drive boot.
Yes, lugging around a notebook is no fun. I bought a newer one and still find it somewhat heavy to carry.
there are many third party software can help to do encrypt usb storage devices with password.I have tried truecrypt (www.truecrypt.org/downloads.php) and USB Security(http://www.abettersoft.com/usb-security.html). there are all great, truecrypt is opensource freeware; USB Security supports to encrypt part or whole of the usb drive; you can
view your encrypted data on any other computers without to install the encryption software any more. only type the password to access the encrypted usb drive. good luck.
[quote=diaoor]there are many third party software can help to do encrypt usb storage devices with password.I have tried truecrypt (www.truecrypt.org/downloads.php) and USB Security(http://www.abettersoft.com/usb-security.html). there are all great, truecrypt is opensource freeware; USB Security supports to encrypt part or whole of the usb drive; you can
view your encrypted data on any other computers without to install the encryption software any more. only type the password to access the encrypted usb drive. good luck.[/quote]
You do know the OP and others are talking about using HAIKU which this software presently does not work with?