mac - Is there a way to drop a new file into an encrypted folder in OS X without mounting it?

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2013-08
  • guidoism

    What I'd like to do is have a encrypted bundle that I can throw my financial documents into. But I don't want it mounted all the time for security reasons, and it's a pain to click on it, type in the password, copy the stuff over, then unmount it. Is there an easier way?

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  • Canadian Luke

    Not without compromising the security. You can do it with a script, but it would save the password in clear text on the script


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  • Eli Bendersky

    I have the following use case:

    1. There's some data from my PC I want to periodically back-up online
    2. I own some hosting, so I want to use that for the backups, don't want to pay to another backup service
    3. I want to encrypt my data locally prior to moving it to the server

    I have no problem writing scripts to automate the process (say, periodically generate the backup and upload by FTP to my server), but my main question is about step 3 - the encryption: which way is recommended to encrypt my files (say, collected into a .ZIP) prior to uploading to the server?

    P.S. TrueCrypt seems popular but it's not quite what I'm looking for, since I don't want the files to be constantly encrypted here on my PC.


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  • Stephen Jennings

    Actually, TrueCrypt might help you greatly here. As part of an automated process, say via batch file, you could:

    1. Mount a TrueCrypt volume using TrueCrypt's command line interface (or just do it manually).

    2. Copy the files you want to back up into the mounted volume.

    3. Unmount the volume.

    4. Upload the TrueCrypt container to the server in the manner of your choosing.

  • Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams

    Bundle the files into <archive format of choice>, then encrypt the whole thing with GnuPG.

  • Pulse

    Take a look at Cobian Backup It offers encryption, compression and supports FTP, it's also free

  • CDeanMartin

    If you know how to write scripts, you could do something really cool with the encryption. Write it Yourself!

    The famous RSA encryption scheme is time tested and very secure, and its only 5 steps of simple algebra. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA#A_worked_example

    I did it in java for school but if you hate algebra it may not be for you.