With OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard, you can FileVault your sensitive home directory, but put all your non-sensitive compute || i/o-intensive files outside your home directory (eg in /Users/Stuff)
I don't know whether you can do this in 10.7 Lion Phil On 18 Aug 2011, at 22:50, William G. Scott wrote: > OS X 10.7 enables you to do whole-drive encryption. > > Here is a description from Arse Technica: > > http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7.ars/13 > > I ain't never tried it myself. 10.7 seems to run slow enough as it is. > > -- Bill > > > > On Aug 18, 2011, at 5:34 AM, Andreas Förster wrote: > >> Since we're on the subject... I've been tempted on and off to encrypt my >> hard drive, but after getting burned once a hundred years ago when encrypted >> data turned into garbled bytes all of a sudden I've been hesitant. I've >> gone so far as to install TrueCrypt (on a MacBook), but I haven't put it >> into action. Before I do, the big question: >> >> What software do people on the bb use for encryption? What can be >> recommended without hesitation? >> >> Thanks. >> >> >> Andreas >> >> >> On 18/08/2011 1:19, Eric Bennett wrote: >>> John, >>> >>> Since so many people have said it's flawless, I'd like to point out this is >>> not always the case. The particular version of the particular package that >>> we have installs some system libraries that caused a program I use on a >>> moderately frequent basis to crash every time I tried to open a file on a >>> network drive. It took me about 9 months to figure out what the cause was, >>> during which time I had to manually copy things to the local drive before I >>> could open them in that particular program. The vendor of the encryption >>> software has a newer version but our IT department is using an older >>> version. There is another workaround but it's kind of a hack. >>> >>> So I'd say problems are very rare, but if you run into strange behavior, >>> don't rule out encryption as a possible cause. >>> >>> -Eric >>> >>> >>> >> -- >> Andreas Förster, Research Associate >> Paul Freemont & Xiaodong Zhang Labs >> Department of Biochemistry, Imperial College London >> http://www.msf.bio.ic.ac.uk
