The easiest way to secure a flash drive (i.e. password protection)?

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  • Picocrypt

    A very small, very simple, yet very secure encryption tool.

  • Try Picocrypt. It's encryption software so not just password protection, but it's not super beginner friendly. You can have the portable application on the same flash drive as your files. Play around with it.

  • Cryptomator

    Multi-platform transparent client-side encryption of your files in the cloud

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  • pass-coffin

    A password store extension to hide data inside a signed and encrypted coffin

  • Easy is pass and for folders/drives pass-coffin. On Windows, it might require some setup for WSL though. Pass has a huge load of Extensions, for Windows-Tools too.

  • awesome-password-store

    A collection of awesome pass extensions and interfaces (for zx2c4's pass)

  • Easy is pass and for folders/drives pass-coffin. On Windows, it might require some setup for WSL though. Pass has a huge load of Extensions, for Windows-Tools too.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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