HOW DO YOU ENCRYPT AN ENTIRE CD FULL OF UNENCRYPTED FILES?

HOW DO YOU ENCRYPT AN ENTIRE CD FULL OF UNENCRYPTED FILES?
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HOW DO YOU ENCRYPT AN ENTIRE CD FULL OF UNENCRYPTED FILES? sportsprofits 02-27-2006
Posted by sportsprofits on February 27, 2006, 3:24 pm
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This may seem like a very elementary question but how would you encrypt
a CD containing, say, a folder which itself contained perhaps a
thousand small files which might be text, audio, or video?

I use Windows XP with all the latest patches, etc & service pack 2.

Every encrytion utility I've researched seems to have two flaws for
this project:

1) You have to encrypt every single file - and decrypt them as you view
them (which, I believe, would have to be done with something like PGP)
OR

2) The whole-disc encryption seems to be ridiculously easy to break (I
read that in a review for CD-Lock, for instance).

Has anyone used the product from Ashampoo? It apparently does what I
want, but how good is it?

In other words, I'm looking to transfer many files to a CD, then
encrypt the entire disc and then burn it - and then be able to enter a
password to decrypt that entire disc to view it's contents.

I'd be quite appreciative if someone could offer some suggestions.
Anyone wishing to can email me at sportsprofits@gmail.com. Thanks
again for any help offered.


Posted by Volker Birk on February 27, 2006, 4:09 pm
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> I use Windows XP with all the latest patches, etc & service pack 2.
> ...
> In other words, I'm looking to transfer many files to a CD, then
> encrypt the entire disc and then burn it - and then be able to enter a
> password to decrypt that entire disc to view it's contents.

Did you try http://www.truecrypt.org ?

Yours,
VB.
--
Wenn Du "Ich sehe die Mathematik als einzigen Bereich an, wo es klare
Beweise gibt." und "Ich fuehle mich in einem Anzug unwohl." als Aussagen
mit aequivalentem Meinungsinhalt betrachtest, hast Du mit Deinem Gleichnis
recht. (Michail Bachmann zu Thomas Wallutis in d.a.s.r)

Posted by Juergen Nieveler on February 27, 2006, 4:11 pm
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> 2) The whole-disc encryption seems to be ridiculously easy to break (I
> read that in a review for CD-Lock, for instance).

Truecrypt isn't easily broken if you use a safe password. Simply create
a large enough Truecrypt volume, put the files inside, and burn the
volume to CD.

Juergen Nieveler
--
My other computer is a VAX.

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