<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Nov 14, 2005, at 4:29 PM, John Richardson wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Helvetica">2)This seems like overkill, so some apple store employee suggested this. </FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Helvetica">a) Take the files you want protected. Create a disk image and encrypt the </FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Helvetica">disk image using Apple's disk utilities. [I suppose that you could then use </FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Helvetica">file vault to double encrypt the material]</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>That is what I use, but instead of the File Vault I use password protected files inside the encrypted DMG.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The only thing to look out for that when you mount the DMG is that Keychain will offer to save the password for you, which obviously would be a silly thing to do.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>As far as Applications go, I think the performance hit would be significant enough to not want to do this, but if you really wanted to you could put each app in its own DMG and just mount the ones you need.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>TjL</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>