I synchronise the contents of My Documents on my home computer with my USB stick and am concerned with the security of the contents om stick. I thought encryption would be a solution.I created a test folder with some files which I encrypted. Encryption seemed to work OK since the colour of the file names changed to green. I then synch'ed the contents with my stick, took the stick to a different computer, and unfortunately I could read the "encrypted" files as per normal. The two computers have different login usernames.Should the contents of the stick have been secure? What am I doing wrong please?The cause might be related to the fact that a certificate "snap-in" is not visible in the user account. Should it be? If the problem is caused by the fact there isn't a digital certificate installed, then why didn't XP ask me for the location of the certificate before it proceeded to encrypt?TIA.... Greg1 person got this answerI do too

Thank you JW, good answer .... Greg

JW,I have switched to Truecrypt. The problem I was having on the 27th has been fixed. The Smartsync program has an option to use Windows' copy program instead of Smartsync's and it seems to have made the difference. Now I am using Smartsync in conjunction with Truecrypt and everything seems perfect. Thanks for your help, .... Greg

I'm glad you got it solved. Thanks for the feedback.-- JW