On Oct 25, 2005, at 10:06 PM, Lee Larson wrote: > On Oct 25, 2005, at 11:47 PM, R.D.Preston wrote: > >> Not knowing much about encryption, I used the internet to search >> for info on this, and >> got many links to the subject, including a few devoted to the Mac >> and it's OS, including >> discussions about FileVault in ver. 9, and also in ver. 10. >> Interesting, but it didn't seem >> like enough, so I'm still leaning toward the driver-level method, >> although I am still >> searching ? I hadn't considered the disk driver update problem >> you mention. > > So, I'm curious. What were the arguments against FileVault in > Tiger? (Really old versions of FileVault basically sucked.)
Hello again, Lee. Here's a little follow-up info from the last two months: Something I learned from more reading: anyone with an osX install disk can reset the password(s) for FileVault. I didn't like that at all; so, I kept searching and eventually did get the CipherDisk II product. Though it was only supported through osX v.10.3.8, it has a mess o' schemes to encrypt with, including AES 256 and Blowfish. The new product, called CipherWorks, is osX compatible from v.10.3 and upward, althouth the only (published) scheme supported is AES 256. It also supports full (non-bootable) disk encryption, disk images, and file shredding. I thought you might also be curious what I decided on. All seems to be working fine, and I'm running v.10.4.3 now. Regards, Russ Preston | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 24 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
