[Mac_crypto] Encrypting Removable Mac Drive

[Charly Avital]

Hi,


In this specific context (OS X Disk Copy), does AES stand for Andvanced
Encryption Standard(RIJNDAEL ?), or Apple Encryption Standard?

Charly

At 5:43 PM -0400 8/11/02, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
>http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/dan_gill=
mor/ejournal/3825075.htm?template=3DcontentModules/printstory.jsp
>Posted on Thu, Aug. 08, 2002
>Encrypting Removable Mac Drive
>
>Posted by Dan Gillmor
>
>In this recent posting I was bemoaning the missing encryption software in a
>nifty device I've been testing, a USB-powered flash-memory "disk drive" for
>my Mac. The package comes with crypto for Windows, but not for the Mac.
>
>Several readers, including an Apple employee, pointed out an elegant and
>remarkably easy-to-use solution. Here's what he said:
>
>I wouldn't trust my sensitive data to commercial encryption either. What
>you CAN do is create an encrypted disk image using the OS X Disk Copy
>utility.
>
>Applications/Utilities/Disk Copy; then
>
>Image/New Blank Image
>
>Select the size of whatever your diskonkey is, and select 128bit AES
>(Advanced Encryption Standard) with a complex passphrase that you can add
>to your keychain.


>Keep that disk image file on your diskonkey, now, if something ever
>happened, one would have to be able to break US Government approved 128bit
>AES.
>
>A little more elegant than the Windows solution...;-]
>
>
>
>
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