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From: Victor Parpoil on 25 May 2010 14:17 Kir�ly a �crit : > I'll be traveling soon and would like to keep scans of my passport, > birth certificate, airline tickets, etc online (encrypted of course) > in an easily accessible place in case I lose all of what I am carying > with me. > > If I find myself in need of those online docs, I would probably be > accessing them on a Windows computer. > > Can anyone suggest how I can encrypt those scans on my Mac (10.5.8) so > that they can be easily decrypted on a Windows machine? Preferably > without having to install additional decrypting software on the Windows > machine? I know nothing at all about Windows and so I have no idea > what decrpytion tools are preinstalled. > > I have looked at OS X's command line zip tool, but I am a little wary > of it because its man page says that its encryption method is > "considered weak". > > I have looked into various online secure document sharing services (Mozy > et al) but they all seem overly complicated and they like to use their > own encryption algorithms - maybe I'm paranoid but I'd rather use my > own. > > TIA for any help. Have you envisaged putting those documents on some server with restrain accessibility (ie ssh/sftp)? You can even configure your mac to accept ssh conections (but it's not really safe in your case because your mac have to stay on power...) -- Victor
From: Wes Groleau on 25 May 2010 14:45 On 05-25-2010 13:31, Jim Gibson wrote: > Both Microsoft Word and PDF documents can be password-protected. > Presumably, this means that the documents are encrypted as well, or > otherwise one could open the document in any text editor and extract > text. Images might be harder to extract. I've never tried it, but I was told one could defeat PDF restrictions by using a non-Adobe reader that did not implement them. -- Wes Groleau It's the Law! http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/WWW?itemid=93
From: BreadWithSpam on 25 May 2010 14:50 Wes Groleau <Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org> writes: > On 05-25-2010 13:31, Jim Gibson wrote: > > Both Microsoft Word and PDF documents can be password-protected. > > Presumably, this means that the documents are encrypted as well, or > > otherwise one could open the document in any text editor and extract > > text. Images might be harder to extract. > > I've never tried it, but I was told one could defeat PDF restrictions > by using a non-Adobe reader that did not implement them. You still need the key if hte document is encrypted. Once it's been opened, with the key, some of the non-Adobe apps will let you re-save it without restrictions or encryption. -- Plain Bread alone for e-mail, thanks. The rest gets trashed.
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kir=E1ly?= on 25 May 2010 17:10 Warren Oates <warren.oates(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Isn't this the sort of thing for which PGP is designed? > > Yes, but it seems the OP is looking for a much more complicated way of > doing it. I don't have an Intel Mac, which PGP seems to require. -- K. Lang may your lum reek.
From: David Ryeburn on 25 May 2010 17:34
In article <C1XKn.4805$Z6.3114(a)edtnps82>, me(a)home.spamsucks.ca (Kir�ly) wrote: > I don't have an Intel Mac, which PGP seems to require. So give TrueCrypt a try. It works on PPC Macs as well as Intel Macs. I haven't gone through the installation process on a Windows machine, but my daughter (intelligent, but not a computer nerd) has done so, so I suspect it's not that difficult. David -- David Ryeburn david_ryeburn(a)telus.netz To send e-mail, use "net" instead of "netz". |