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cd-burning with password???

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by da4id May 15, 2001 last reply May 16, 2001

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hey techis!
i have a problem here and i hope someone here in the house could help me.

is there any way to burn cd-s with a passwordprotection?

i am not talkin about backups with retrospect or kinda stuff.

i am often sending cds from my office to outher offices with conf. material - so if the cd gets loose we are not interested in that everybody could open it.

so is there a solution to protect a burnd cd with password like i could do with zip, or harddrives???

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by raffi_ May 15, 2001

Not directly that I know of but you might consider the following (I would go with the PGP option myself - VERY secure)

ZIP it with a password before you burn the file on to a CD.
-OR-
Does the app that creates the files support passwords? Most MS apps do as does WordPerfect
-OR_
Use PGP (PrettyGoodPrivacy) to encrypt the file before burning.

by da4id May 16, 2001

thx raffi - but i found a program

by gdunc65 May 15, 2001

I have been working with CD-Writers for a while now and I havent come across software that can do that. I would suggest that you try what Raffi posted sounds good to me.

by da4id May 16, 2001

thx gdunc

by krunch May 15, 2001

Hey I found this great website on the web that talks about many, many different ways you can protect your cd's. Check it out:
http://www.cdrfaq.org/faq02.html#S2-4

And actually, the base web site, www.cdrfaq.org seemed to have about anything you could ever wish to know about burning cd's.

HTH!