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Re: Encryption

From Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject Re: Encryption
Date 2012-08-07 18:23 +0200
Organization Norwegian university of science and technology
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>> Does anyone know of a simple technique I can use to encrypt it such 
>> that I could decrypt it (by knowing the password to the file) either on 
>> iPhone, iPad, Mac desktop or PC laptop? 
>
> create an encrypted disk image in disk utility and put the file there.

And use it on iDevices how?

> however, a much, much better way is use a password manager which is
> designed just for tracking passwords, especially one which lets you
> access it from multiple devices, such as 1password or lastpass.

Indeed. Strip (http://getstrip.com/) seems a good choice, with support
for iOS, OS X, Windows, Android (which makes you wonder if they haven't
got linux support in the pipeline). Moreover, they seem to be doing the
crypto right, which is not universally true of password managers:

  http://www.elcomsoft.com/WP/BH-EU-2012-WP.pdf

-- 
* Harald Hanche-Olsen     <URL:http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/>
- It is undesirable to believe a proposition
  when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
  -- Bertrand Russell

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Encryption Gary <gary_w1@hotline.com> - 2012-08-07 05:34 -0400
  Re: Encryption nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-08-07 09:45 -0400
    Re: Encryption Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no> - 2012-08-07 18:23 +0200
      Re: Encryption nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-08-07 12:43 -0400
  Re: Encryption "Douglas C. Neidermeyer" <sgt@arms.omega.faber.edu> - 2012-08-07 10:34 -0400
  Re: Encryption Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2012-08-07 18:07 -0600
    Re: Encryption Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-08-07 22:36 -0400
      Re: Encryption Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-08-08 11:01 +0200
        Re: Encryption Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2012-08-08 16:14 -0600
  Re: Encryption Bob Harris <nospam.News.Bob@remove.Smith-Harris.us> - 2012-08-07 23:12 -0400

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