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sCrypt101
Make your files safer
Opening SDCrypt and sCrypt
Terminal applications, as these are, open very differently than other applications. Terminal applications open using another application called terminal. When you have downloaded the two scrypt terminal apps, you should be set. In leopard, just double click on the icon that you have downloaded. If this does not work, then either you are on tiger or you are on an unsupported Operating System. If this is the case, open Terminal from /Applications/Utilities then drag the icon in and hit enter in the terminal window
Encrypting A File
To encrypt a file, simply open scrypt, then type the path of your file. To do this, either type the path, or drag the file into terminal. If any part of the path has a space in it, and you dragged the file in, you must now get rid of all of the '\' before the spaces. After this is complete, hit enter and type your password. sCrypt supports passwords longer than 6 and shorted than 35 digits long. When you hit enter, the encryption process will take place. When that is complete, another file should appear in the same folder as the original, that is the same file name, but with a '.scrypt' after it. That is the encrypted version. Delete the original, and you are set.
Decrypting a file
Decrypting the file is quite the same. Open 'sdcrypt', then type the path of your file. To do this, either type the path, or drag the file into terminal. If any part of the path has a space in it, and you dragged the file in, you must now get rid of all of the '\' before the spaces. After this is complete, hit enter and type your password. SDCrypt supports passwords longer than 6 and shorted than 35 digits long. Now you have a file with the name of your encrypted file, but with no '.scrypt' at the end of it. You are set to go.
