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cross-platform encryptoin apps?
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Because I take my USB drive from home (Mac) to work (PC), I'd like to encrypt-protect the text files I work back and forth on.
Which application is easiest for both platforms?
I'd appreciate your advice.
Thanks.
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Microsoft Word allows you to encrypt documents using a password.
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Originally posted by f1000:
Microsoft Word allows you to encrypt documents using a password.
no, it only allows you to password-protect them. It's not encryption. Encryption is something like filevault or PGP/GPG.
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Originally posted by bohdanz:
Because I take my USB drive from home (Mac) to work (PC), I'd like to encrypt-protect the text files I work back and forth on.
Which application is easiest for both platforms?
I'd appreciate your advice.
Thanks.
Doesn't Lexar make a flash drive with encryption software that runs on the Mac and Windows? I think it's called JumpDrive Secure or the like.
But you could always get PGP/GPG and encrypt the files that way. Manually encrypting and decrypting as you go.
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Originally posted by Sod Off Sadr:
no, it only allows you to password-protect them. It's not encryption. Encryption is something like filevault or PGP/GPG.
That's not what I heard. According to Microsoft, "Password to open" encrypts the document. "Password to modify" does not. I'm not sure how strong the "Password to open" encryption is, though.
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/resourc...tures_Word.xml
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