How do you encrypt a CD?

[Johnbear007]

I would like to be able to add a password feature to a CD, so that it will not launch and read without entering a password first.

Is there any burning program out there that has such a feature?

 

[Viper96720]

CD-Lock

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: Viper96720
CD-Lock

Works, but requires a memory-resident decoder. I dislike those greatly.

I'd say just archive the contents and lock it with a stupidly high level of encryption in order to make brute-forcing impractical. 4096-bit, anyone?

- M4H

 

[DaveSimmons]

The newer WinZip and PKZip versions allow for using a much stronger encryption than the standard zip encryption.

Of course in 6 months you'll have lost the password and be asking us if there is a crack for the encryption

 

[GnomeCop]

who cares, if someone finds your porn, let them see it.

 

[Sid59]

once you figure it out .. sell it to the record companies.. they want to find a way to thwart piracy.

jokes aside .. if it's a data cd, you're better off rar or zipping it into a password. - use no compression .. makes it faster

 

[Johnbear007]

Originally posted by: Sid59
once you figure it out .. sell it to the record companies.. they want to find a way to thwart piracy.

jokes aside .. if it's a data cd, you're better off rar or zipping it into a password. - use no compression .. makes it faster

I wasn't thinking data CD's. I was thinking more along the lines of images.

 

[Matthias99]

Well, to a computer, *all* CDs are 'data' CDs, except for audio CDs (which don't really have a filesystem per se, they're just raw digital waveform audio). The problem you're going to have is that there are no provisions for any sort of security or encryption in the CD-ROM standards. So anything that tries to add them (like that CD-Lock utility above, or various anti-copying systems) is basically a big hack.

You could certainly encrypt and/or compress your image files and then burn them to a CD, but I don't know of any way to create, say, a password-protected Photo-CD without using third-party software.

 

[NightCrawler]

PGPdisk
BestCrypt
Safeboot vdisk

slap the files into a container and burn it to the cd, nobody can open it without the password.