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General Software Discussion / Re: Folder protection
« on: March 29, 2013, 04:29 PM »
What I am currently doing is to temporarily place a confidential file which is yet to be encrypted on a Ram Drive and when I am done with my work on that file, I move it into my confidential.rar

I do the above because when my machine is off, I don't even need to worry about temp file left by program or whatsoever.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Folder protection
« on: March 29, 2013, 04:17 PM »
I just browse through the folder protect program mentioned by dr_andus on their web site, it seems that the program is doing encryption and decryption on-the-fly and not simply a block to the access of the folder.

I just wonder what happen if I add a folder protected by Folder Protect to my Outpost firewall files & folder locks section. Could there be a crash when both program are attempting to take their control over the same folder, may be I should try that.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Folder protection
« on: March 29, 2013, 04:11 PM »
Afaik RAR uses AES256 encryption - if you use a strong passphrase, the RAR archive should be safe enough (given that they haven't made any stupid security bloopers). This workflow means that you'll be extracting the files temporarily, working on them, and RAR'ing them back up - that would make the data very easy to retrieve if somebody stole the machine or its harddrive.
-f0dder (March 29, 2013, 03:53 PM)

I assume you mean that someone that stole the machine will try to look for decrypted temp files left by program(s)that work on a decrypted copy of my confidential files, am I right?
I have been think the same thing, may be I can create a temp folder for all those programs and had that temp folder wiped by a wiping utility periodically.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Folder protection
« on: March 29, 2013, 03:30 PM »
I know this isn't what you want to hear, but: use TrueCrypt or don't bother at all.

Pretty much anything else won't be anything but a false sense of security. And if you only want a half-hearted solution, why bother doing anything at all? :)
-f0dder (March 29, 2013, 01:44 PM)

Absolutely agreed.
-skwire (March 29, 2013, 03:27 PM)

I really don't understand what both of you are trying to tell me?
Why don't elaborate about what you really think?

Sincerely, I won't mind even if you tell me that my intention is stupid.

Treat me a newbie and tell me  whatever you think I should be aware in term of keeping something confidential on my PC (which of course is linked to the outside world with internet)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Folder protection
« on: March 29, 2013, 03:15 PM »
Thanks dr_andus, I am interested in that.

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