[X4U] New toy!

[A. Scott McCulloch]

Have you looked into Stuffit? I think you can create encrypted zip  
files, or self-extracting files that could be unzipped or extracted  
on a PC.


On Nov 25, 2005, at 1:38 PM, Charles Howse wrote:

>> On Nov 25, 2005, at 11:13 AM, Charles Howse wrote:
>>
>>> My nephew gave me an IMB 512MB USB 2.0 Memory Key!
>>> Cool, it's the first memory stick I've had.
>>>
>>> I just love my PowerMac...I inserted the stick, noticed that the
>>> lights
>>> inside started blinking, and Bam! there it was on the desktop,
>>> mounted and
>>> ready!
>>>
>>> It came with several Windoze apps to encrypt the contents, which,
>>> of course
>>> I can't use.
>>>
>>> I'd like to be able to somehow secure the contents, and be able to
>>> use the
>>> stick on any computer (Mac, Windows, Linux, etc.).
>>>
>>> Any suggestions for strategy and applications?
>>
>> This won't be available to other systems, but on OS X you can create
>> an ecrypted disk image and then put your files in that and then copy
>> that over to your memory stick. If you make the disk image smaller
>> than the total size of the memory stick, the rest of the space would
>> then be usable to other systems, but not the disk image itself.
>
> OK, understood.
> I've done a little research, and it looks like there isn't anything  
> I can do
> if I want to encrypt the files on my Mac, and then decrypt them on  
> a PC.