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Re: Encrypting Disk Device Driver

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From: Klaus Hartnegg
Date: Fri, 17 May 1991 13:18
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grover@dawkins.cs.unlv.edu (Kevin Grover) writes:

>In article <1642@msa3b.UUCP>, kevin@msa3b.UUCP (Kevin P. Kleinfelter) writes:
>) 
>) Scenario: I've got lots of stuff on a disk I'd like to keep CONFIDENTIAL.
>)           I'd like to make sure that NOONE but I can get to the data on the
>)           entire disk.

>Norton 5.0 has something that sounds exaclty like what you described.  You create
>virtual disks, any time you try to access files on the virtual disk, you are 
>prompted for a password.  The virtual disk is then 'open' until you close, in
>which case you would need to enter the password again to gain access.

Yes, Norton 5 has such a thing: DISKREET.
But: They didn't include it in the international package. You will
get it only if you are living in the US (and perhaps Canada?)
Is there something similar for people in Europe?
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From: hartnegg@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Klaus Hartnegg)
Subject: Re: Encrypting Disk Device Driver
Message-ID: <1991May17.131818.6649@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de>
Organization: Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Freiburg, Deutschland
References: <1642@msa3b.UUCP> <1991May15.173908.12999@unlv.edu>
Date: Fri, 17 May 91 13:18:18 GMT
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