Password Protect

[ruster]

is it possible to protect any files with passwords on rockbox?

[bluebrother]

No.

You can of course use a harddisk encrpytion tool on your pc and use the player as external hard disk for that image. You won't be able accessing the encrypted disk from within Rockbox, unsurprisingly.

[ruster]

is there any way to write a program that will be accessible by password and that program contains files (music, games, text ect.)?

[bluebrother]

is there any way to write a program that will be accessible by password and that program contains files (music, games, text ect.)?

You mean as a plugin for Rockbox or what? A locking feature has been requested several times and rejected. It would only provide basic locking / encryption and it completely doesn't make sense on a portable music player with limited ressources, especially not when (ce)crypting on the fly.

If you only want to protect a couple of files you can just put them in a password protected zip archive. But remember that opening files from such an archive will usually create a temporary copy on the local disk ...

[ruster]

So if i put them in the zip archive would i still be able to access them on the player?

[saratoga]

is there any way to write a program that will be accessible by password and that program contains files (music, games, text ect.)?

You could write your own encrypted file system for rockbox, but it probably wouldn't be accepted into CVS since theres not much use for it.

[Mikerman]

You mean as a plugin for Rockbox or what? A locking feature has been requested several times and rejected. It would only provide basic locking / encryption and it completely doesn't make sense on a portable music player with limited ressources, especially not when (ce)crypting on the fly.

Interesting--I would have thought that password protection with Rockbox would be a natural and beneficial, for example for a passwords file. But perhaps the benefits do not outweigh the costs, especially for such limited use. And with the relatively low price of thumbdrives, now, perhaps with a lesser need.  

[bluebrother]

Interesting--I would have thought that password protection with Rockbox would be a natural and beneficial, for example for a passwords file. But perhaps the benefits do not outweigh the costs, especially for such limited use. And with the relatively low price of thumbdrives, now, perhaps with a lesser need.  

You can use the player for passwords like a thumbdrive -- the encryption / decryption still happens on the PC, not on the drive. On the fly encryption of the files on disk is a different thing -- password safe programs usually save their data in an encrypted file, and there is no reason why such a file couldn't exist on the player. You can also install the needed tool on the player, it's a simple harddisk -- but you always will need a PC to run the tool.

[Mikerman]

Understood.