Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!uio.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Harald Hanche-Olsen Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Encryption Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 18:23:01 +0200 Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <5020e138$0$1736$c3e8da3$3a1a2348@news.astraweb.com> <070820120945269780%nospam@nospam.invalid> NNTP-Posting-Host: euler.math.ntnu.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: orkan.itea.ntnu.no 1344356580 8154 129.241.15.89 (7 Aug 2012 16:23:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 16:23:00 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:YtnKMrLFhNyf9lxA+Ge7WQyeO+w= Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:11443 [nospam ] >> 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 - It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. -- Bertrand Russell