On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 12:02:55PM -0800, peter.clark at tides.com wrote: > I'm interested in getting some sort of USB flash memory device, > exemplified by M-System's DiskOnKey. There's also Agate's Q USB and > JMTek's USBdrive, but the first advantage to DiskOnKey is that it > doesn't require drivers, just a fully USB-aware OS. Only problem is the > price: the cheapest was $45, before $13 s+h. For 8MB of memory, that's > not a lot of bang for the buck. It hasn't hit eBay yet, either. > So, does anyone know of a local store that sells these things, > or of another similar product? The USBdrive is supposedly twice as slow, > although the cheapest is $40 and comes with 16MB mem. The Q Drive is $70 > for 16MB mem. > I would like to use it to store PGP/GPG keys (I'm starting to How fast do you need to read that pgp key from the device? My .gnupg dir has 28k... > get interested in such things, now that they are threatened--funny how > that works) and other stuff that I might want to keep on me at all > times. The downside is that there doesn't seem to be any access > protection such as passwords or file system encryption, so if it were > lost, then anyone could view it. Suggestions/work-arounds welcome. Cross-platform encryption? Don't hold your breath. OTOH you can choose a password for your secret key. florin -- "If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 230 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010924/3f8e6a8a/attachment.pgp