That includes applications like Adium and Transmit. That means that even if someone gains access to the system, they will not be able to use any applications that rely on login and password info stored in the OS X login keychain. That's why I changed my login keychain settings to lock when sleeping. The entire encryption process took about 2.5 hours on my 1.6GHz MacBook Air, which had 55GB of data in use. As the snippet above explained, PGP WDE encrypts in the background, unlike Apple's FileVault which locks you out for hours while it encrypts.

You may also pause and resume the process at your convenience.Īll I had to do was select my hard drive, provide a passphrase and it began encrypting my hard drive. The encryption process can be lengthy, however PGP desktop runs in the background. PGP Whole Disk provides the next level of security and convenience by encrypting your entire disk. When that was done, it was time to embark on the task of actually encrypting my hard drive. After installing the actual PGP Desktop application, I was led through creating and publishing a PGP key. Setting up PGP WDE had quite a few steps but was a pretty smooth process overall. Since publishing that post I have installed and been using PGP WDE on my MacBook Air for about a week. By encrypting my hard drive, I am able to keep all of my data safe from physical disk access and other such tampering. Last week I boasted about the release of PGP Whole Disk Encryption for Mac OS X and how it is definitely something to consider if data privacy is of utmost importance to you. Review: PGP Whole Disk Encryption for Mac OS X

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