Well, one of the most frustrating things about switching OS's is to find a PGPDisk-like utility. PGPDisk, for those who don't know, is a program that creates an encrypred disk image that one can mount as a Volume and access as one would any disk. The filesystem on the volume is encrypted and the files are encrypted/decrypted on the fly.
On MacOS9 and Windows, I've used PGPDisk for this. On Linux I use BestCrypt. On OSX no one has yet to make a proper utility for doing such.
However, I noticed the other day while making a .dmg file using Disk Copy that it had a tag called "Encryption." When i clicked it, I was shown the option to use "AES-128". Way cool. So now I have an AES-128 encrypted .DMG disk image for all my secret files.
Its not the perfect solution. BestCrypt has different encryption routines and I generally choose CAST-128 because it's yet to be cracked, and AES-128 bothers me because it's the "approved" government standard and I don't exactly trust the U.S. government when it comes to privacy. But, until someone makes osmehting better, it's better'n nuttin, especially since my main reason for it is in case someone steals my laptop they won't get willy-nilly access to my writings.
BTW, it looks as those DiskCopy can support multiple encryption types since the selector is a drop-down. does anyone know of how to code and implement other encryption routines for DiskCopy?
Better yet, does anyone know of a PGPDisk/BestCrypt type of app for OSX?
On MacOS9 and Windows, I've used PGPDisk for this. On Linux I use BestCrypt. On OSX no one has yet to make a proper utility for doing such.
However, I noticed the other day while making a .dmg file using Disk Copy that it had a tag called "Encryption." When i clicked it, I was shown the option to use "AES-128". Way cool. So now I have an AES-128 encrypted .DMG disk image for all my secret files.
Its not the perfect solution. BestCrypt has different encryption routines and I generally choose CAST-128 because it's yet to be cracked, and AES-128 bothers me because it's the "approved" government standard and I don't exactly trust the U.S. government when it comes to privacy. But, until someone makes osmehting better, it's better'n nuttin, especially since my main reason for it is in case someone steals my laptop they won't get willy-nilly access to my writings.
BTW, it looks as those DiskCopy can support multiple encryption types since the selector is a drop-down. does anyone know of how to code and implement other encryption routines for DiskCopy?
Better yet, does anyone know of a PGPDisk/BestCrypt type of app for OSX?