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From: steele@unc.cs.unc.edu (Oliver Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac Security
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Date: 8 May 88 15:45:48 GMT
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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.

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