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 ZFS be used with encryption on OS X?
Ideals:
protection of home directories should be better than in Lion (for multiple administrators: FileVault 2 alone is less secure than FileVault 1)
resizing a file system should be simple and ...
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Tools to compress and encrypt files
I want to compress several files and encrypt them with a password if possible.
Are there any build-in tools in Mac OS that provide such functionality?
If not, can you recommend me a (freeware) ...
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Is File Vault 2 whole disk encryption or whole partition encryption?
Can I use File Vault to encrypt only some of the partitions on my disk (so that I can still have unencrypted and Windows partitions on the same disk), or does File Vault encrypt the whole disk so that ...
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How can I get Time Machine to back up the contents of a File Vault while logged in?
Disclaimer: this question and answer are targeted to the Snow Leopard implementation of FileVault where the user home folder is only encrypted in a bundle. Lion's implementation of FileVault doesn't ...
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Speed of old Filevault vs. new Lion full disk encryption
How do the old Filevault and the new Lion full disk encryption compare speed wise?
ATM I am using Snow Leppard with FileVault to encrypt my whole home directory, which makes opening IPhoto, Chrome or ...
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How do you encrypt a file or a single folder worth of data?
Looking for a way to easily encrypt a file or a folder with a password without having to make up an encrypted read write image in Disk Utility?
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With File Vault ON are time machine backups encrypted?
I have been using time machine to back up to a wireless external drive since I got my mac. Today I used filevault to encrypt my hard drive.
Will this affect how Time Machine backs up my files?
Will ...
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How do I encypt Time Machine with Mac OS X Lion?
I am thinking about upgrading to Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, because it offers full disk encryption.
However, if I use Time Machine with on an external hard drive, will the Time Machine backups be encrypted ...
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FileVault 2 gives “boot file not written” error
I'm trying to enable FileVault 2 in Mountain Lion, but a few steps into the process of turning on the encryption I get the error "Boot file not written" and the encryption fails to succeed.
Anyone ...
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How to create an encrypted volume on an external drive or flash drive
How do you encrypt an external hard/flash drive connected to my Mac in Lion 10.7? Preferable something with a strong encryption as FileVault.
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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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Does iCloud use client-side encryption?
I would like to know if iCloud uses client-side encryption i.e. all data is encrypted on client side and even Apple can't decrypt the data and read it.
Is this true for iCloud?
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FileVault sparsefile uses double of actual allocated disk space
I just noticed that for some reason disk usage (du) reports that FileVault in my home directory would use its allocated disk space twice:
[/Users]% sudo du -h -d 1 .
184G ./.moo
170G ./moo
204K ...
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If I encrypt a Time Machine backup disk, is the entire disk encrypted or just the Backups.backupdb directory?
If I check the "Encrypt backup disk" checkbox in Time Machine (in OS X Lion), I get this warning:
Will just the Time Machine "Backups.backupdb" directory be encrypted, or the entire disk? In other ...
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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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