Portable, self-contained encryption for removable storage devices and optical media

Technical Specifications

There are two types of users of PGP^® Portable: the user who creates a PGP Portable device or media containing secured data, and the user who does not have PGP^® software but needs to access that secured data. You might also be both types of users: creating a PGP Portable that you can take and use on a computer at a customer's site, for example.

System Requirements

• Windows XP x32 Professional and Home Edition
• Windows XP x64 Professional x64 Edition
• Windows XP Tablet PC Edition
• Windows Vista (all 32 and 64 bit editions including Home editions)
• Windows 2000 Professional (access only)
• Windows 2000 Server and Advanced Server (access only)
• Mac OS X 10.5.7 or later  (access only)

Creating secure devices or media using PGP Portable

PGP Portable can be created on one of two targets:

• A locally mounted removable device, such as a USB flash drive, that is no larger than 128 GB
• A folder on a local drive, remote file share, or CD/DVD (including Blu-Ray)
• No additional software installation is required to access PGP Portable removable devices or media. However, to create PGP Portable devices, a licensed version of PGP^® client software version 9.9.1 or later for Windows, managed by a PGP Universal™ Server, must be installed on the system.
• Removable USB devices, such as a flash drive, that are larger than 4 GB must be formatted as NTFS. NTFS drives are treated as read-only when accessed on Mac OS X systems (unless a third-party program, such as NTFS-3G for Mac OS X, is used to enable read-write access). PGP Portable Disks created on removable USB devices that are smaller than 4 GB are formatted as FAT32.