So.. I'm planning on picking up both an SD 1Gb card for my new Tungsten T3 Palm and a 1Gb USB Flash drive on Monday.
I want to be able to store MP3 tunes that I can access from my Palm and also work-related files.
As far as the 1Gb Flash drive I want to be able to back up some of my files to it for security. I looked around to see if FileVault (Apple's great encryption facility) would indeed encrypt a single directory for storage on the USB drive. Apparently, this feature wasn't available until recently and some folks had developed Byzantine workarounds. I found the reference to Disk Utility (Apple's disk management utility) in the discussion and fired it up.
What do you know? It offers an option to create a disc image from a folder and to encrypt it using FileVault. Rockin'! I just tried it and it works beautifully. I'm now much happier at the thought I can secure certain files just by dragging and dropping them into a directory on my USB drive.
Totally transparent, totally easy to use. The way encryption should be.
Posted by artandscience at October 3, 2004 02:48 PM | TrackBack