[R] encrypted RData file?

Na Li nali at umn.edu
Fri Oct 28 00:21:37 CEST 2005


On 27 Oct 2005, Marc Schwartz uttered the following:

> Seems to me that a better option would be to encrypt the full partition
> such that (unless you write the files to a non-encrypted partition)
> these issues are transparent. 

I actually do that on a Mac via an encrypted sparse disk image.  But I may
occasionally need transfer some files to other people or put it on a machine
without such support.  Also the encryption options are quite limited.

Michael




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