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Encrypting a User's Home Directory Under Mac OS X

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-ya-see-it-now-ya-don't dept.

jnetsurfer writes "A friend of mine challenged me to see if I could place a user's home directory on a device image (DMG) under Mac OS X. Well, I decided to post my solution to the problem on the web and here, in case anyone is interested. This can be useful if you want to encrypt a user's home directory, or if you wanted to limit a user's home directory to a certain size."

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  1. Re:Not fast by vasqzr · · Score: 0, Offtopic



    My system:

    Windows 2000
    Pentium II 400MHz
    256MB RAM

    149 MP3 files, 568MB

    I encrypted the entire folder from Windows Explorer. It took just over 3 minutes.

    Next, I fired up WinAmp. Playing music hovers between 0% and 2% according to Windows Task Manager.

    From the start of the process, I had 1 PuTTY window, 4-5 Internet Explorer windows, AIM, and IRC clients running.

    An MP3 player shouldn't have to encrypt/decrypt the file 'on the fly', it should read the whole 3MB-5MB of the MP3 and just store it in RAM.

    An encrypted file system shouldn't be hurting MP3 playback much. Database access on the other hand...