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Utility to password protect folders?
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A friend who writes for a living is looking for a utility which can password protect folders. Ive done a Google search and found a number of techy tricks which are a just a step too far for her in terms of ease of use. I tried the trick of sending to a compressed (zip) file but all too often it complained about invalid characters in the path or filename. So I'd like to suggest a utility which has a proven track record. Does anyone have experience of using any that you would recommend? Thanks for your time and any info. Ian |
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Utility to password protect folders?
Ian R wrote:
Hi A friend who writes for a living is looking for a utility which can password protect folders. Ive done a Google search and found a number of techy tricks which are a just a step too far for her in terms of ease of use. I tried the trick of sending to a compressed (zip) file but all too often it complained about invalid characters in the path or filename. So I'd like to suggest a utility which has a proven track record. Does anyone have experience of using any that you would recommend? Google "TrueCrypt"! And you should have asked in Usenet group alt.comp.freeware! -- @~@ Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY. / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you! /( _ )\ (Ubuntu 9.04) Linux 2.6.30.7 ^ ^ 19:23:02 up 2 days 7:38 1 user load average: 1.51 1.62 1.58 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...sub_addressesa |
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Utility to password protect folders?
A friend who writes for a living is looking for a utility which can password protect folders. I use Kremlin, Blowfish mode, with a long UC, LC, numeric and punctuation passphrase for my most sensitive (eg banking) stuff. Or with a shorter key for more trivial but still sensitive stuff (eg address book), . Start a long key with something like I'm going 2 and add the rest yourself. I has the I in UC, some LC, a numeric, and a punctuation character. Just don't forget the phrase, or key. Or which key goes with which files. If you write it down and the PC and the key get nicked, the encryption is worthless. Other possibilities are on the fly encrypt and decrypt like Drive Crypt. |
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Utility to password protect folders?
What's wrong with the logon password and NTFS permissions?
Passwords alone don't protect a stolen notebook, use a virtual encrypted drive. "Ian R" wrote in message m... Hi A friend who writes for a living is looking for a utility which can password protect folders. Ive done a Google search and found a number of techy tricks which are a just a step too far for her in terms of ease of use. I tried the trick of sending to a compressed (zip) file but all too often it complained about invalid characters in the path or filename. So I'd like to suggest a utility which has a proven track record. Does anyone have experience of using any that you would recommend? Thanks for your time and any info. Ian |
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Utility to password protect folders?
Eric Gisin wrote:
What's wrong with the logon password and NTFS permissions? Passwords alone don't protect a stolen notebook, use a virtual encrypted drive. TrueCrypt works on both Window$ and Linux. -- @~@ Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY. / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you! /( _ )\ (Ubuntu 9.04) Linux 2.6.30.7 ^ ^ 18:29:01 up 6 days 6:44 2 users load average: 1.16 1.26 1.30 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...sub_addressesa |
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Utility to password protect folders?
What's wrong with the logon password and NTFS permissions? You need to encrypt individual folders or files with strong encryption, such a Blowfish with a long passphrase. Even then there are those who back up their files before they are encrypted. |
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Utility to password protect folders?
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:55:45 GMT, "Ato_Zee"
wrote: What's wrong with the logon password and NTFS permissions? You need to encrypt individual folders or files with strong encryption, such a Blowfish with a long passphrase. Using NTFS encryption, how do you allow someone to backup copy of the encrypted data without having any access to the data besides encrypted bits, the directory graph, and the size of the individual files? Also, if a make a "password reset disk" on one system can I use the "password reset disk" on another system so that I can get back my files that I can't get back on the original system since it is dead and all I have are the data disk? Even then there are those who back up their files before they are encrypted. |
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