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From: blochowi@rt5.cs.wisc.edu (Jason Blochowiak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Looking for some utilities
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Date: 27 Sep 89 04:41:17 GMT
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In article <8909262247.aa05970@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> KMILES@CC.USU.EDU ("Kurt Miles, VAX Consultant") writes:
>>On Mon, 25 Sep 89 20:27:18 GMT   Subash Shankar said:
>>I'm looking for some utilities for certain functions.
>> 
>>1 - Password protection on folders, so you can lock out access to
>>    certain folders and/or disks.  I don't need anything fancy or
>>    unbreakable - just something that will keep a computer novice
>>    from accessing files.
>If you find them, I would be interested in a copy myself.

	Well, for the first one, it wouldn't be too difficult to write a
program that would scramble a file based on a key, and then unscramble
it later. You could just scramble a directory, and then when you wanted to
use the files (or subdirectories), you'd just unscramble the thing. Of
course, this isn't exactly transparent... I think that to do that
transparently would be a MAJOR pain, as you'd have to go mucking about in
the OS, and at that point, you might as well make it fairly secure, as
it wouldn't be all that much more work...
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                 Jason Blochowiak - back at school (again).
             blochowi@garfield.cs.wisc.edu or jason@madnix.UUCP

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