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Re: FileVault on other than home directories on MacOS?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alec Muffett)
Wed Sep 23 18:56:12 2009
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
From: Alec Muffett <alec.muffett@gmail.com>
To: Ashish Gulhati <crypto@ashish.neomailbox.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090922001501.309F2E9826@green.metzdowd.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:06:01 +0100
> In Disk Utility -> New Image, select size, properties and encryption
> type (AES 128 or 256) and Create.
>
> Then mount and use your encrypted disks as needed.
Just as an aside: on 10.5 and upwards I have taken to using encrypted
sparse bundles rather than simple images; the advantage of doing this
is that if you are creating a encrypted filesystem on (say) a 16Gb
FAT-32 USB stick, then:
a) you are not constrained to a 4Gb encrypted image (otherwise to FAT32)
b) when using the sparse image, your files can be >4Gb
c) you do not eat the entire stick all at once
d) there can be (is?) a degree of garbage collection
e) the stick is still usable as FAT32
- alec
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