Passwords and Security on the Pocket PC

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<alchemist@bigfoot.com.au> wrote in message
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> In the olden days, when I had a Palm Pilot, I could tag notes and
> documents as "private" and then hide them using the password protection
> system.
>
> This allowed me to store confidential documents and records on my palm
> and be reasonably certain that a casual user who picked up my Pilot
> (should I drop or lose it) would not be able to access PIN numbers,
> company records that I stored in Palm Reader... that sort of thing.
>
> I could turn this hiding ON and OFF using the default password
> protection built into PalmOS. A hack in hackmaster allowed me to ensure
> that the password automatically activated if I had truned it off. Thus
> I could use my Palm any time I wanted, but had to enter a password to
> access secure files.
>
> Does anyone have a suggestion as to the best way to implement a similar
> scheme on PocketPC? Ideally:
>
> a) I DONT want to enter a password for general use of the Poacket PC,
> only when I want to enter certain files.
>
> c) IDEALLY, I would like to be able to lock and/or hide NOTES, WORD
> files, EXCEL files and even MICROSOFT READER .Lit files. Being able to
> lock acrobat files would be a bonus.
>
> d) If I have entered the password, I need it to reactivate
> automatically if I turn the Pocket PC off... that way if I drop the
> thing and lose it, anyone picking it up would find the secure files
> password locked.
>
> Suggestions? Ideas?

ya http://www.softwinter.com/sentry_ce.html

It's like having a pgp drive on the ppc. You can mount it and it shows up as
a "storage card" in your file explorer.

It meets requirements a,b, and c.

Enjoy.

>
> Al
>
> Trust Me, I'm a chemist......
>

My dad has a PHD in solid state science. There are lots of hunks of silicone
around the house.