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Encrypt Folder - Allow Specific Application Access
Hi everybody and thank you for taking the time to read up on my post.
I'm looking for a program that will allow me to password protect a folder, but allow a specific program access to the folder so that it may write/read to the folder. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
I'm looking for a program that will allow me to password protect a folder, but allow a specific program access to the folder so that it may write/read to the folder. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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Hey ahoffmann
Sorry I didn't clearly explain. I frequently transfer files between my friends using Bittorrent and the Azureus client. A large sum of this data is confidential, and I wish to have at least some layer of security. What I'm looking for is basically a product like Steganos Secure File Sharing (http://www.steganos.com/?layout=default&content=products_sfs_info&language=en) that will allow me to encrypt and password protect the data while allowing Azureus to continue downloading data into the folder. However, Steganos Secure File Sharing doesn't support bittorrent which made me think of an alternative route to achieve protection. Thanks for your help and good luck
Sorry I didn't clearly explain. I frequently transfer files between my friends using Bittorrent and the Azureus client. A large sum of this data is confidential, and I wish to have at least some layer of security. What I'm looking for is basically a product like Steganos Secure File Sharing (http://www.steganos.com/?layout=default&content=products_sfs_info&language=en) that will allow me to encrypt and password protect the data while allowing Azureus to continue downloading data into the folder. However, Steganos Secure File Sharing doesn't support bittorrent which made me think of an alternative route to achieve protection. Thanks for your help and good luck
do you need a secure transport or a secure storage?
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Hello again, sorry it took me so long to get back, been out running errands. I'm not sure if I can compelteley change our client, just because there's the vast amount of people using it, and the difficulty to switch. I'm not exactly suer what a L2TP tunnel is, however, I'm not worried about the security of the transfer, just about the encryption on my harddrive. If I understand you correctly ahoffman, by secure transfer you mean the transfer of the files, and hat I am not extremely concerned about. I'm just looking for an app that will allow me to password-protect a folder (possibly encrypt) and allow Azureus to continue downloading files into it. Thanks for all your help again, and good luck!
ok, transport is out of question.
If you still have an encrypted file system, and then start your program to store data there, there should not be a problem.
Or am I missing something?
If you still have an encrypted file system, and then start your program to store data there, there should not be a problem.
Or am I missing something?
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Hello again
I don't believe I have an encrypted file system already, because I only have Windows XP Home, sorry if I made it sound if I have one, I don't. I'm looking for an app that will password protect a folder and let Azureus download data into it, not just encrypt. I've looked around, but it looks like all these programs "lock" the folders, making them unaccessible and sometimes making them invisible. So, I'm just looking for an program that will do this, or any other alternatives. Thanks for the help and keep up the good work
I don't believe I have an encrypted file system already, because I only have Windows XP Home, sorry if I made it sound if I have one, I don't. I'm looking for an app that will password protect a folder and let Azureus download data into it, not just encrypt. I've looked around, but it looks like all these programs "lock" the folders, making them unaccessible and sometimes making them invisible. So, I'm just looking for an program that will do this, or any other alternatives. Thanks for the help and keep up the good work
XP's NTFS has its own encryption (sorry don't know if it can be done per directory)
How aout using GPG to do the job?
How aout using GPG to do the job?
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I'm not exactly sure what GPG is, however, I'm looking at the site and from what I see it is an encryption? I'm not exactly concerned too much about the encryption, just about a password-protected folder for the data. Sorry this has gone on so long, but keep up the good work!
"I'm not exactly concerned too much about the encryption, just about a password-protected folder for the data."
The password has to do something, either tell the operating system that the user has rights to read the data or decrypt the data. In the first case, your client would have to interact with the operating system, as would be the case with ftp or http security. Encrypting each file with PGP or a similar utility would be an option, but you'd have to securely distribute the passwords.
The password has to do something, either tell the operating system that the user has rights to read the data or decrypt the data. In the first case, your client would have to interact with the operating system, as would be the case with ftp or http security. Encrypting each file with PGP or a similar utility would be an option, but you'd have to securely distribute the passwords.
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Hey sorry that took me so long to get back, I've been quite busy. Thanks for the suggestion, I'm going to try it out, and get back ASAP. Thank you again, keep up the good work
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Ok just increased point value to 500, will be splitting it soon ~ Thanx for all your help!
Could you please explain.