Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!mcnc!thorin!unc!steele From: steele@unc.cs.unc.edu (Oliver Steele) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Mac Security Message-ID: <2616@thorin.cs.unc.edu> Date: 8 May 88 15:45:48 GMT References: <10279@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> Sender: news@thorin.cs.unc.edu Reply-To: steele@unc.UUCP (Oliver Steele) Organization: University Of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Lines: 22 Keywords: Security, hard sisk boris@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Boris Altman) writes: >We are looking for some method to secure data on hard disks >in 2 different situation: 1. when you leave your office for a while; >2. Overnight. There's a device that clamps over your power switch and/or the mouth of your floppy drive advertised on the inside back cover of the May MacWorld (I think; sorry: I don't have a copy). This looked moderately secure -- you'd have to pick a lock to get at the data, same as a filing cabinet or desk drawer -- and, being a programmer, I don't trust software solutions to encryption that aren't moderately time-consuming and don't require at least some human intervention to lock/unlock your files. If you still want to go with software, however, take a look at SuperMac's Sentinel. DES encryption (which is probably overkill but definitely secure), and their own faster supposedly-secure version of DES. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oliver Steele ...!decnet!mcnc!unc!steele UNC-CH steele@cs.unc.edu "We made it structured, and now it doesn't work." -- Brice Tebbs