{"id":457,"date":"2012-08-05T19:12:53","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T03:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/systemsolver.com\/StatlerBlog\/?p=457"},"modified":"2012-08-05T19:12:53","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T03:12:53","slug":"truecrypt-on-usb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/2012\/08\/05\/truecrypt-on-usb\/","title":{"rendered":"TrueCrypt on USB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some notes on setting up TrueCrypt on a USB stick.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truecrypt.org\/\">http:\/\/www.truecrypt.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Can a volume be automatically mounted whenever its host device gets connected to the computer?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes. For example, if you have a TrueCrypt container on a USB flash drive and you want TrueCrypt to mount it automatically when you insert the USB flash drive into the USB port, follow these steps:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Mount the volume (to the drive letter to which you want it to be mounted every time).<\/li>\n<li>Right-click the mounted volume in the drive list in the main TrueCrypt window and select &#8216;<em>Add to Favorites<\/em>&#8216;.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truecrypt.org\/docs\/?s=favorites\">Favorites<\/a> Organizer window should appear now. In this window, enable the option &#8216;<em>Mount selected volume when its host device gets connected<\/em>&#8216; and click <em>OK<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Then, when you insert the USB flash drive into the USB port, you will be asked for the volume password (and\/or keyfiles) (unless it is cached) and if it is correct, the volume will be mounted.<\/p>\n<p>Note: TrueCrypt will not prompt you for a password if you have enabled caching of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truecrypt.org\/docs\/?s=system-encryption\">pre-boot authentication<\/a> password (<em>Settings<\/em> &gt; &#8216;<em>System Encryption<\/em>&#8216;) and the volume uses the same password as the system partition\/drive.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truecrypt.org\/docs\/?s=truecrypt-portable\">http:\/\/www.truecrypt.org\/docs\/?s=truecrypt-portable<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truecrypt.org\/docs\/?s=how-to-back-up-securely\">http:\/\/www.truecrypt.org\/docs\/?s=how-to-back-up-securely<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truecrypt.org\/docs\/?s=volume-mounted-as-removable-medium\">http:\/\/www.truecrypt.org\/docs\/?s=volume-mounted-as-removable-medium<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some notes on setting up TrueCrypt on a USB stick. http:\/\/www.truecrypt.org\/ Can a volume be automatically mounted whenever its host device gets connected to the computer? Yes. For example, if you have a TrueCrypt container on a USB flash drive and you want TrueCrypt to mount it automatically when you insert the USB flash drive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}