On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:08 -0700, "Rick Womer" <[email protected]> wrote: > > In the land of Winblows XP, one can right-click on a folder, select > "Encrypt", and it is quickly encrypted using one's system password. > Encryption and decryption are transparent; so for example I encrypted my > email files, and they worked just as though they weren't encrypted. When > anyone else logged onto my computer, though, they were just gibberish.
I don't have a Mac but I dipped into this thread because just yesterday I was looking for such an option for my new laptop PC which runs Vista. In addition we have computers running Win 2000 and XP in this household and on none of them (including the laptop) does right clicking a folder produce an encryption option. Hmmmm.... A bit of Googling later and I find that a registry edit is needed to enable this option - Microsoft actually has a help page to tell you how to do it. So thanks for staring this thread. It's helped me even if I haven't helped you.... :-)> Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ > > I cannot find, anywhere, a similar function for Mac OS X. "File Vault" > encrypts the entire account, and makes backing up very difficult. "True > Crypt" does the same. MEO makes self-extracting encrypted archives, but > one has to extract them every time one wants to use them. Disk Utility > makes encrypted images, but one must deliberately open them and close > them with every use. > > So, does anyone know of a transparent, on-the-fly encryption program for > Mac? Or is this the first way I have found that OS X is inferior to > Winblows? > > Cheers, > > Rick > > http://photo.net/photos/RickW > -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - One of many happy users: http://www.fastmail.fm/docs/quotes.html -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
