Mar. 4th, 2013

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So I've got this USB disk, and a server running backups to the USB disk.

I want:
#1: The USB disk to be encrypted, so it requires a password (NOT a certificate or keyfile, if possible) to be mounted on any other computer.
#2: The USB disk to automatically be mounted on windows startup, without a user logging in, without anyone being prompted for a password, on THIS computer.

The professional paranoids who make TrueCrypt provide me with a host of options, but unfortunately not this option. The closest they come is a System Favourite Volume, which does exactly what I want *as long as the boot disk is, itself, encrypted*. And the problem with THAT is that a reboot then requires a password in order for the machine to come back up, which is not desirable in a server machine.

So!

What other options are out there?

EDIT: There are backup programs that can write to AES256-encrypted zip files, on a nonencrypted disk. That's maybe kinda sorta good enough? But I'd rather the whole disk be garbage without a password.

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