[Ti] File Vault

[Justin R. Miller]

On Jan 3, 2004, at 8:06 AM, arjan.bos at icu.nl wrote:

> Neither am I. I created several small(-ish) encrypted, secured disk 
> images for my important files. These images easily fit on a 
> memorystick (each), so I can always carry them with me. They are 
> encrypted, so it's not easy to read them without the correct 
> passphrase.
>
> From my $HOME directory I created symbolic links to their mount point 
> in /Volumes, so I can access them as though they were on my home 
> directory. The only negative point is that you have to mount the disk 
> images every time you log on. But my solution to that is to simply 
> never log off. (uptime is now 11 days.) The advantage is that they 
> appear in the new finder as disks, so you have easy access to the 
> direct images if you want to.

I do this from a 100MB on-disk encrypted image for my sensitive files, 
however I don't have it symlinked into my home or anything -- I just 
access the files (Quicken, etc.) directly from the mounted volume.  I 
have the encryption password in my keychain, so I put the disk image 
file in my Startup Items and it mounts at login.  Then I use either the 
screen lock or Fast User Switching login screen to lock the account 
when sleeping the machine for some measure of security.

-- 
Justin R. Miller
incanus at codesorcery.net
PGP key at http://codesorcery.net/pubkey.html