[GTALUG] Cross-platform encrypted partition/virtual disk?

[Loui Chang]

On Tue 29 Dec 2015 22:47 -0500, Giles Orr wrote:
> I want to have an encrypted portion of a USB stick that's accessible
> on Windows, Linux, and OS X.  This will include lots of files, to the
> point that individual file encryption would seem impractical, and a
> partition (or encrypted virtual disk) would be the best solution.  I
> thought "TrueCrypt!" ... but the first word that came up when I
> searched for it was "discontinued:"
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueCrypt .  According to that same
> Wikipedia article, its successors are VeraCrypt or CipherShed: of the
> two, VeraCrypt seems more practical, as it actually has several public
> releases behind it whereas CipherShed seems like it's more of an idea
> than a product right now.
> 
> Has anybody tried either of these?  Any other solutions that people
> are using or would suggest for this circumstance?  Thanks.

I'd actually want to do something like this as well. I'd keep an unencrypted
partition with portable binaries for decryption. Then an encrypted data
partition also with signatures to verify the bins. Haven't figured out the
software yet.