Tip of the week – 5th June 2009

Jun 5

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[Security Tips]

If you were using one of the passwords from the website yesterday, you have a better memory than mine if you can memorize them! This probably means that you’re going to need to store those passwords in a file.

The people who make Truecrypt are aware of this, and when you are setting up an encrypted volume (see last Thursday’s tip), you can choose to use a keyfile if you wish.

So here’s an idea, go back a few tips about encrypting your documents folder. You could keep all your keyfiles on a USB flash drive, such that your documents folder would only be “unlocked” when you had that flash drive plugged in. Such that you kind of have a security key to unlock your flies.

Just make sure you take very good care of your key drive!

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