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brylis

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22. May 2003 @ 16:02

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Please can someone help me? I want to burn a copy of my files and folders from my hard disk, at home, to use at work, as I work at various offices and move around a lot. I was wondering is it possible to password protect a CD so that no one can use (open, view etc) the CD unless they enter a password first. If it is not possible does anyone have any other suggestions as to what else I can do to protect the data from being view/opened or from using the CD? Early this year I burnt my data from the hard disk, which was my backup, I took it to work and left it behind somewhere and have never found it. I need to be able to access all my files and folders regularly, I have put files on floppy disks but they don?t hold enough and I am forever copying files to floppy disks. I am sure there is a better solution. I can?t use the internet to share files as I don?t have internet access everywhere I go. Can anyone suggest what else I can do? I know I can password each file separately but this is too hard for all the data that I have already created. I am using nero.

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msb5150

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22. May 2003 @ 16:36

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You could encrypt all the data w/ pgp (pretty good privacy) which is free and of very high quality (search on google) another solution(which would even yield more space to use on a cd) would be to zip or rar your files and add a password, this would give you the advantage of password protection, and give you more space, the only problem with this approach is that it may take some time(depending on your system(s) specs) to uncompress your files, with both solutions you have to have pgp or a compressing util on all computers. The only exception would be if you chose to make self-extracting zip/rar files with passwords, then you would only need a compression util if you wanted to make another compressed/password protected file.

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PlusOne

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24. May 2003 @ 05:23

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With PGP you could make a PGPdisk, and then PGP would take care of all of the extraction, etc. PGPdisk loads it's own virtual disk file, decompresses/decrypts part of it, and then mounts the file to a drive letter. Very easy to use.

http://www.pgpi.org/

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