passwd protect

rehan999 · 10-24-2009, 03:22 AM

Greetigns

I have a 500Mb data for which i want to copy it to CD and have password protect.

Can any once please advise on how to password protect my data on a CD.

your earlist response will be highly appreceited.

Regards

carltm · 10-24-2009, 04:21 AM

You don't say if this is a single file. If not, I'd suggest making
a tar archive of the data so you have a single file.

To encrypt the file: gpg --no-use-agent -q --force-mdc --symmetric file

To decrypt the file: gpg --no-use-agent -q --decrypt file.gpg > file

rehan999 · 10-24-2009, 04:37 AM

Thanks for the reply...

i didn't get you ....
my file path is in my harddisk named /test

cd /test/encrypt_file.tar

i want to copy encrypt_file.tar file to cd-rom using password protect.

please provide me the steps to follow.

regards
Habeeb.

carltm · 10-24-2009, 05:12 AM

Try this:

cd /tmp
tar cvfz test.tz /test
gpg --no-use-agent -q --force-mdc --symmetric test.tz

Then burn the test.tz.gpg file to cdrom.