Re: Individual Folder Password Protection
- From: "Erasmus" <falkner@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 19 May 2006 06:38:45 -0700
That would make this program not very secure. If he were looking to
share a file with a user (say a guest account or equivalent), but
password protect it so that while the guest account is logged in, the
file is protected, but he can still access it if it is needed (such as
a situation where Patient Health Information is needed by a Doctor, but
a different patient is logged into that machine and cannot be logged
out at the moment - this information must, by law, be protected from
that patient's view, but of the Doctor needs it...), all the devious
patient would have to do is to uninstall the program, and voila! the
file is available. Even if you set that user's access rights to not be
able to uninstall the program, the Doctor could uninstall the program
from frustration and that would make the data fully available and the
system vulnerable - An administration nightmare.
What is needed is something that would be the equivalent of a rootkit
with no uninstall option that allows password protection of folders,
and stores the passwords encrypted somewhere inaccessable (I know... an
ugly concept, but a good option if you really want folders protected)
or some program that creates the same effect that Windows' integrated
compression performs - something that when you doubleclick a zipped
folder to access it, asks for the password, passes it to the zip file
for decryption, extracts the files to a temporary directory, accesses
them in the temp directory, deletes them when the folder is closed or
navigated away from in the explorer window that opened the temp
directory, yet appears to the user simply as if they had entered a
password to access a folder. This would keep the data fully safe even
if the application was uninstalled - the files would simply remain as
password protected zips, but while the program is installed, would act
as folders.
Just some thoughts. I have not seen anything like either of these
options (rootkit or .zip file overlay) but either would be an
improvement over the current lack of options. I hope someone comes up
with something here. I have been looking myself, and am stumped on
where to find a secure yet user-friendly integrated option.
Just my 2¢.
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Erasmus
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