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Brighter.Tomorrow
January 20th, 2011, 06:27 AM
I was wondering if there's anyway to password protect a Micro SD Card, I have alot of important information on my card, including school work, needed information on people I work for, and several programs. All of which I'd like to make sure if someone gets a hold of, can't mess with.

darkwoon
January 20th, 2011, 07:22 AM
There is no protection specific to MicroSD cards.

Now, you can use generic filesystem encryption:

- On Windows, you can use EFS (Encrypted File System - note that it requires NTFS, it won't work on FAT);
- On Linux, dm-crypt is the preferred method of filesystem encryption.

Another solution is to store the files into a password-protected Zip or rar archive - the security will not be as good, but it will probably be sufficient for most purposes.

There are also 3rd-party tools to provide encryption - but they usually cost money, and do not necessarily provide a better protection than EFS/dm-crypt.