Password protecting a file? How to?

zenatek

I have a file, and I need to password protect it. How can I do this and then burn it onto a disc, so that when I put the disc into a computer only I can read it after putting a password in?

jwink3101

Fairly Simple to do with encrypted sparsedisk images



Go to Disk Utility in Applications>Utilites



Go to Images>New>Blank Image



Make the size the maximum size you may want the files to be. to be safe, double it.



Now set encryption to the AES-128 and the format to sparsedisk. It will ask for your password after you hit okay. Set it to whatever you want



You will now have a disk image wich will need a password. Before you put it on a disk, as you add files, it will grow to the max size you set. You will need to shrink them with either http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...40625012304236 or http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...41207153823222 . When you burn it to a CD, you will still need to password but you wont be able to write to it.



Edit: if you are still in 10.2, follow http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...30212055706937 . If the link in that link (it makes sense, sort-of) doens;t work, read the comments for instructiosn

zenatek

Thanks worked great!

electric monk

Or try Crypt2.



Uses blowfish for encryption and is just drag and drop.





http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/mac/12572

bergz

Quote:

Originally posted by Electric Monk

Or try Crypt2.



Uses blowfish for encryption and is just drag and drop.





http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/mac/12572

What a great app!!!



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