Encrypt USB stick

[Nem]

I have a USB stick with some sensitive information on it. I'd like to encrypt this drive so that a password/phrase/decryption key is required to access its contents. The catch is that I work across a variety of OSs (Windows 10, OSX, debian based linux) so the usb drive needs to be useable on any OS I plug it into

 

What options do I have, short of buying an encrypted usb stick, now that truecrypt is no longer maintained?

[Nem]

yeah I really need drive/volume level encryption because most documents dont support encryption, and some are portable apps

[thor77]

Why not use one of Truecrypts successors (for example VeraCrypt)?

[vorticalbox]

5 hours ago, thor77 said:

Why not use one of Truecrypts successors (for example VeraCrypt)?

this is an option. I believe someone has made a working version of bit locker for linux.

[Nem]

I seem to remember reading that Truecrypt actually required admin privileges to encrypt or decrypt a drive. Is this also true of Veracrypt? Because its unlikely that I'd have admin privs on all the computers Id want to use with the usb stick

[thor77]

16 hours ago, Nem said:

I seem to remember reading that Truecrypt actually required admin privileges to encrypt or decrypt a drive. Is this also true of Veracrypt? Because its unlikely that I'd have admin privs on all the computers Id want to use with the usb stick

VeraCrypt has an wiki-article about that topic: Using VeraCrypt Without Administrator Privileges

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After a system administrator installs VeraCrypt on the system, users without administrator privileges will be able to run VeraCrypt, mount/dismount any type of VeraCrypt volume, load/save data from/to it, and create file-hosted VeraCrypt volumes on the system.

 

[Nem]

ah guess I cant use vercrypt then. For example if I'm in the lab I cant go around installing the software on the computers, even if I were granted admin privileges to do so

[thor77]

You could run VeraCrypt in Portable Mode

[Nem]

says on that page that I need admin privs even to run in portable mode