[G4] Encrypted Hard Disk

[Perry The Cynic]

--On Thursday, April 22, 2004 3:15 AM -0500 Michael Ron 
<ronmicha at midsouth.rr.com> wrote:

> I keep client material on separate, external hard drives.  One contains
> sensitive data. Do you know of a way to keep this disk encrypted except
> when we're using it? Is there a program I can use. Can't use OSX built in
> security since it's for the Home folder.

Using Disk Utility (Panther) or Disk Copy (earlier), create a new disk 
image and make it encrypted. It's perfectly fine to make the image big 
enough to fill (almost) all the disk. The encryption is first-rate (AES), 
and you can keep the password in your keychain if you care to.

This means you'll have to either double-click the disk image after mounting 
the disk, or arrange for this to be done automatically. (You can put an 
alias to the disk image somewhere convenient and open *that*.)

The problems with File Vault (such as they are) are related to FV-specific 
features, and don't apply to "plain" disk images, encrypted or otherwise.

Cheers
  -- perry

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Perry The Cynic                                             perry at cynic.org
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