Just putting my paranoid hat one for a second… There. Done it.

Ok, so say for the sake of argument that I wanted to encrypt files on a Mac to prevent them being immediately available to the casual onlooker (no, not that sort of files. dirty sods) what options are available to me?

I saw the Truecrypt is available to the Mac user, and I have used PGP in the past on Windows machines, but what are other people using?

If just to stop casual viewing store in password protected zip?

Password Pad from the App store? if it’s just text you can set an access password for it. (Free)

passwords are so last year! I was thinking of something slightly more… robust.

Truecrypt works well for me, either volumes which you put stuff into or the whole shooting match. Depends on the seriousness of the filthy videos you are saving.

Just make a password protected encrypted disk image with Disk Utility if I remember correctly. No third party apps needed.

Tracker has it right.

Rachel

Truecrypt if you need to have plausible deniability under whatever the act of parliament is. You can then encrypt and hide a disc image inside an encrypted image. You need only disclose the first access key to avoid a long time in the clink for contempt.
You haven’t seen me right?

Truecrypt+1