On Jan 21, 2006, at 7:42 PM, david_elmo wrote:
After some advice recently, I made an empty disk image from Disk Utility and put this on the USB stick, this can take a password and needs it to open now (not the stick, just the disk image). Seems to work brilliantly for Mac to Mac transfers. Now I must test it for transfers to a PC. Soon!
That won't work. Mac disk images are only readable on a Mac. There are memory sticks that incorporate security features, <http:// tinyurl.com/9fj4s> which may work. (I'm not sure about Mac support)
You can encrypt files in a dual platform manner with GPG, but that requires GPG be installed. <http://www.gnupg.org/>
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