the process of converting information using an algorithm (or cipher) to render the information unreadable to anyone who doesn't have the algorithm (also known as a key)
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How can I get files off of a Mac when the display is broken?
I need to get files off of my mac, and SSH and RDP are both disabled. My screen is broken, and my SSD is encrypted by FileVault.
Now, I do have one advantage: An external monitor. However, it will ...
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MacZfs with encryption on os-x
I have followed these steps for setting up zfs (maczfs 74.3.0, OSX 10.8.3) with encryption. Everything works fine, till I restart the computer.
After the restart, diskutil informs me that the file ...
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How to store password for Logical Volume in keychain?
I have a Logical Volume with UUID 73D724AB-9999-9999-9999-8F1E1F5DF83F and it is password protected. The volume name is Workspace.
The password is very long. Thus, I would like to create an password ...
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FileVault & multiple admin users' privacy
Using FileVault 2, when connecting a disk in target mode, the disk is locked and can only be unlocked by users authorised to do so. However, once it is unlocked, all contents are accessible to the ...
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Turn off encrypted backup on iPhone that has a profile without removing profiles
I have iPhones that have profiles on them that were password protected profiles and those passwords have been lost. So we need to wipe the iphones and was hoping to to a backup first and then restore ...
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How can I use Jabber with OTR on IOS?
I would like to use Jabber with OTR Encoding on my iPad, Which clients are supporting this?
Apps already tried:
ChatSecure doesn't seem to work with XMPP.
IM+ Pro is not recommended
Trillian has no ...
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Can I decrypt a dm-crypt filesystem on OS X?
I've been an Ubuntu user for years, and I just got my first Mac. One thing I haven't yet figured out is how to decrypt my encrypted filesystem on which I store my SSH and GPG keys on my flash drive. I ...
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Unable to abort disk decryption process
I got a 2T Western Digital portable drive as my main storage for my MacBook Air, with encryption enabled. Currently I used ~300G out of 2T, with maximum read/write speed of 30 MB/s (USB 2.0)
I just ...
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How to backup an encrypted Core Storage volume off-site?
Given a hard disk with an encrypted Core Storage volume (but not the decryption password, because the backup service should not have access to that), how would one go about backing it up in a way that ...
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How can I recover the key of an encrypted hard-drive?
I still have access to the disc, but I lost the piece of paper with the key. Can I somehow recover it? I already had a look into Keychain Access Utility, but I couldn’t find it.
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How to set up ZEVO / ZFS on an internal disk while maintaining full disk encryption?
It seems that it's currently impossible to have the entire boot drive converted to ZFS.
How would one go about converting a single disk HFS+ Filevault 2 setup into a setup which has full encryption ...
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Is FileVault 2 + SSD + OverProvisioning possible?
As the title says, could someone accomplish this?
I couldn't.
FileVault 2 wizard tells me that the disk isn't compatible with it.
I have only 3 partitions on main disk, and Recovery HD was cloned ...
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How do I get rid of my encrypted iPhone backups to start from scratch?
Is there a way I can delete all my encrypted iPhone backups for which I forgot the password, so that I can start backing up from fresh?
At the moment I'm stuck in this loop (below) which I can't ...
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Can a FileVault-encrypted partition be accessed using a password I supplied during OS X install?
I have a MacBook (Retina, Mid 2012 if it's relevant) which I installed Mountain Lion onto, creating one user account only (an Admin account). There is a Guest User, marked for "Sharing Only". The hard ...
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Recover a deleted encrypted partition?
As my previous external HDD threw some disturbing SMART Warnings, I bought a new Hard Drive. It arrived earlier today, I formatted it and made some backups onto it at it has more space and I wanted to ...
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why would keychain access silently discard an S/MIME X.509 certificate?
A co-worker sent me some S/MIME signed email. With anyone else who has done this, the certificate has shown up in my login keychain. Not so with his. I wrote out the attached p7s file, and verified ...
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airport express with encrypt wifi
I have an old airport-express and a wireless network at home which I'm "closing" with WEP encryption. I'm using the airport-express to listen to music playing on my iPad with the bigger speakers at ...
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Create backup iPhone with forgotten encryption password
I'm trying to make a backup from my iPhone, however it's set to be password protected.
I do now know the password, as I've never set one. I've tried all the passwords I know, which I've ever used to ...
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Disk Encryption on Mac PRO OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63) running Apple RAID Drives
I have a Mac Pro (mid 2010) running Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63) with Apple Raid 1T drives and I am running VMware Fusion with Windows 7. FileVault will not install the disk encryption and PGP will ...
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Encrypting sensitive data on Mac + Windows
I've been a long-time Windows user, using a utility called AxCrypt to encrypt sensitive documents which holded sensitive info (bank passwords, credit card numbers, etc).
I had an encrypted Excel ...
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How can I reformat a drive that contains an encrypted volume?
After OS X 10.7 came out with its disk-encryption features, I encrypted an empty USB thumb drive just for grins. I never used it, and eventually decided to reformat it as a normal drive for use with ...
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How do I format an encrypted Integral Secure Key?
I just bought an Integral Secure Key from the Apple store but am fed up with having to use its own software just to transfer files to it as it does not appear as a normal USB drive in Finder.
How can ...
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Use OpenSSL in Automator Application? [duplicate]
I want to make an application that's in the same directory as a file: message.txt.enc
If you open the app you should be prompted with a password dialogue. this should be used to decrypt the file AND ...
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protecting keychain data when using Time Machine
I plan to use Time Machine to back up by data.
If the backup is not encrypted, can someone with access to the TimeMachine disk access my keychain passwords? Do they at least need to know my system ...
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Encrypt Folders [duplicate]
I seem to remember there being an option to encrypt my entire file system which I passed on but is there a way to just encrypt a folder / directory the way you can on Linux?
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Should time machine backups be encrypted
I am new to the Mac and was setting up my Time Machine. However, it seems Time Machine also backs up information in the keychain.
I was wondering if that means I should use an encrypted disk to store ...
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OpenPGP encryption of mails in Mountain Lion
I've been trying to find out any way to OpenPGP encrypt mails while sending from Apple Mail or any other email app in Mountain Lion.
GPGTools' GPGMail is not yet ready for Mountain Lion.
MailMate ...
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MBR-partitioned HDD: How to encrypt Time Machine backup?
I'm giving my external HDD to a friend tomorrow for a few days. It's partitioned via Master Boot Record and there are two partitions: a NTFS partition and my Time Machine partition. I don't want him ...
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How can I use FileVault encryption and still track my laptop if stolen
I've spent quite some time over the last few days trying to work out how I can combine the clear data security advantages of encrypting my machine with FileVault 2 under Lion, and the theft-recovery ...
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iPhone backup encryption with password cannot be disabled
Hi have backups which encrypted with passwords and i know the backup password, i can restore it.
There is not any problem.
But i want to disable encrypting backup with password, here is the problem.
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Automator service for encrypting or decrypting with openssl
Can I create two Automator services that allow me to encrypt or decrypt files? So I would right click a file and click 'Encrypt', the .txt file would be encrypted to a .enc using openssl:
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What to backup and restore from IOS using rsync?
I am backing up my jailbroken iphone using full filesystem rsync clone.
The backup command is:
rsync -axvPH --numeric-ids --delete -e 'ssh -i /root/.ssh/ifone' \
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Forgot my password to a disk image (.sparseimage)
I'm in trouble right now.
I used Disk Utility to create a sparse image and I cannot remember the password, when I created the file I didn't select to remember in keychain.
Now, I try to enter the ...
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Why can't I paste into the password dialog when mounting an encrypted disk image?
I've got an encrypted disk sparse bundle disk image and I've used fstab with the right UUID to mount it someplace other than /Volumes. What I would like is to just dbl-click on it, enter the password ...
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Split an Apple-supplied Fusion Drive back into two separate volumes?
Is it possible to take an Apple factory-created Fusion Drive and downgrade it into two separate volumes? I understand this would also necessitate reinstalling the OS and Recovery Partition etc.
The ...
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I have an encrypted disk. How do I customize the Guest shell that is offered when I boot?
I have an encrypted disk and when I boot I'm offered the ability to log in as a guest and get a Safari only shell. This appears to be different from the guest account that is offered in the login ...
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Open an encrypted HDD/USB on Leopard?
Is it possible to access an external HDD or USB drive encrypted on Lion, through a Mac running Leopard?
In other words, is FileVault 2 encryption on volumes/partitions backwards compatible? (It ...
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Is a hardware-based full disk encryption possible on a Mac?
Is it possible to use hardware-based full disk encryption (perhaps on a Samsung 840 Pro SSD) on a Mac, specifically a Macbook Pro 8,2? If so, how?
My understanding is that this will be handled in the ...
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iPad DropBox client side encryption
I have just gotten the New IPad - my first foray into the world of Apple. I'm eager to make the most of it that I can, for both personally and for work.
In order for me to be able to use it for ...
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Need application that use FIPS 140-2 encryption libraries
I want send email in secure way. Do you have any recommendation?
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How can I better understand iCloud security for 1Password data?
My understanding is iCloud uses server-side encryption of customer data.
I am no expert but what about the data e.g. of an app like 1Password which can syncs very sensitive user data to many devices ...
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How do I generate cryptographically random numbers on OSX?
I need to generate several cryptographically random numbers in OSX and save it to a text file.
How should I go about doing this?
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iPhone encrypted backup password forgotten [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
I forgot my local backup password to unlock the iPhone backup file
I have forgotten the password used to encrypt my iPhone 4 iOS 6.0.1 backup. Is there any way to ...
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Time Machine drive encryption going for 22 hours. Is it stalled?
I set up Time Machine in Mountain Lion by plugging in a newly formatted 500GB USB drive, selecting that from the Time Machine dialog, and checking the box to encrypt my backups. A window appeared that ...
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What performance or battery impact does FileVault2 (disk encryption) have on a MacBook Pro Retina?
I'm interested in seeing the performance difference (or load) of FileVault 2 on a MacBook Pro Retina (with SSD)
What are the performance differences and power consumption differences with and without ...
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The encryption of an external drive in 10.7.5 does not seem to work. “Conversion Status: NoConversion”
On a Mac running OS X Lion 10.7.5 I have attempted to encrypt an external drive using Disk Utility.
Since this is 10.7, there is no option of right-clicking to encrypt in Finder. Also, there's no ...
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Mac OS X Server: automount encrypted drive before login
I have a 4TB Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted) hard drive hanging off a Mac OS X Lion (soon to be Mountain Lion) Server that is dedicated to networked Time Machine backups.
I'd like to be able ...
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Can I use an HFS+ usb disk with encryption enabled with a Time Capsule (2TB is mine)
I have a 2TB Time Capsule (version 7.6.1) and I want to connect a USB disk formatted as HFS+ with encryption enabled (on MAC OS X Mountain Lion). When I connect it directly to my iMac, it asks for a ...
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What options do we have to keeping our hard drive secure in case of theft?
If you have work files on your laptop that are sensitive, what measures can you take to keep things secure?
is it possible to encrypt the entire drive?
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What's better? Truecrypt or Encrypted disk image?
I need to secure some work on my laptop and an encrypted disk image fits the bill. I don't need to hide the file (diskimage) just the contents. I like a sparse disk image since it will expand as I add ...
