program that password protects removable media

[EmperorNero]

I want to archive personal stuff such as elecotronic address books, documents, "sensitive" jpegs , etc onto a cd-r and zip disks. are there any programs out there that can lock the whole disc until a person enters the right password.

btw, I was only joking about the jpegs but there are really personal stuff such as my address book that has my family's social security numbers, credit card numbers, etc that I would like to have protected.

 

[nateholtrop]

The disc itself come with that try rigth clicking and check out security

Nate

 

[EmperorNero]

oh yeah..forgot about that.

but what about cd-rs?

 

[loup garou]

if you zip up the files with winzip, you can put a password on the zip file with winzip.

 

[SuperSix]

Winzip...

 

[GL]

I suggest using encryption such as PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) or GPG (GNU Privacy Guard). If you really want security, this is the only way to go with 128-bit encryption locked tight with 4096-bit keys. I'm pretty sure winzip's passwords could easily be broken although I'm not familiar with any programs that could do so. PGP once had it's own filesystem called Secure Disk I believe. I used to use it in win98. I could mount it as a real partition in Windows, and use it as a partition, but in actuality it was an encrypted file.

-GL

 

[Double Trouble]

The winzip protection is a joke, anyone worth half their mettle would get through that in about 5 minutes.

PGP versions 5 and up (check out the free version from their web site) will let you do that with real encryption. What you would do is create a 650MB encryption disk. Then you stuff whatever you want into that archive, and when you have everything set the way you want, you burn the entire archive to a CDR. From then on, you can insert the disk, type the password and it will work like any other CDR.... but without the password it's completely encrypted and it would take the NSA to get to the contents Your pron... ummmm... I mean sensitive files should be safe.

<edit> Dang, GL beat me to it. Yes, the PGP thing is called Secure Disk, and it works very well. You can set up any type of security you want (from RSA to DES to even AEL now)....

 

[EmperorNero]

gl, can you tell me more about pgp? can it secure the whole removeable media or will it just encrypt individual files? I prefer the whole media since I can just enter a pw and access the contents rather than have it encrypt invidual files since it will be a hassle decrypting every single file.

as for winzip, I'll use it as a last option b/c I prefer to have my files intact rather than have it all zipped up together: it's also a hassle to unzip a .zip file when I only want to access one file.

 

[toph99]

GL, where can you get those(online?) and how much for the full lisence?

 

[EmperorNero]

tagej, so I can use pgp to encrypt the disc and not have to encrypt invidual por..err..files?

pgp sounds a bit complicated...is it as time consuming as it sounds?

 

[GL]

It's been a while since I used it, but you could encrypt the entire CDR by making a 650MB PGPdisk. This would appear to you as one 650MB file until you mount it as a partition, which would require you entering a password. Then, it would appear as a 650MB partition in Windows (i.e. an E:\ or F:\). Any files you copy into it or move into it would be encrypted without you doing anything out of the ordinary.

Link to PGPdisk

Looks like you're going to have to compile it if you want it for free...they charge for the binaries. I remember a long time ago finding a place that offered the full blown binary for download though, so just search on Google for it.

EDIT
They don't charge for the 6.02i version but are charging for any newer versions. If you aren't comfortable with compiling, I'd just use the 6.02i version for the time being to play around with it. If I have some time, I'll see if I can compile it for you. Remind me if I haven't gotten back to you about it in a couple of days.

-GL

 

[EmperorNero]

what version of pgp should I use if I plan on using it with win2k and 98...as in installing pgpdisk on both win2k and 98 PLUS encryping the disc in 98 and then using the disc in win2k (and vice versa).