Hi *, I have firewire and USB devices with partitions/logical drives, whole directories and/or files I would like to encrypt. The thing is that I need to be able to just plug in the thing on any x86 machine running a commercial OS that would just take it (and AFAIK the only filesystem that even a MAC would seamlessly 'mount' is vfat/FAT32) is there anyway to do that? I have read quite a bit about it and I still don't find exactly what I need. Also, why exactly does encryption belong in the kernel? I think once you make it a kernel-depending functionality 'portability' to other OS goes out the window Are there libraries out there (of course, preferably OSS ones) which you could compile for different OS and have access to pluggable devices? I crossposted this message becuase, to me, these portability and security issues naturally reach out into different subject areas Also, google was a little 'temperamental' when I was trying to post this message thanx otf