Password on a CD?

[MrsOpie]

This past weekend I shot some boudoir pictures. She is purchasing a CD from me with the pictures on it. She asked if I could password protect the CD. Do any of you know how to do this?

[arch1tect]

the only way would be to encrypt the data on the cd itself. If there is another way it is unbeknownst to me.

[cosworth]

Can't be done.

Only thing you can do is put them in a flash file and embed a password protect somehow with that. Even then I can get images from a swf file with little effort.

PDF?

[arch1tect]

you could always just put the images in a password protected zip file.

[strmrdr]

you could always just put the images in a password protected zip file.
That would be the easiest and cheapest way.

[cosworth]

You can brute force a zip easily, but if the destination has no really computer savvy users, then I say do the zip file.

[jessiper]

Tell her to name it something like "2007 spreadsheets." Who would want to look at those??

[cosworth]

Pure gold.

[kona77]

You can purchase a program like this one.

http://www.softheap.com/cdvlock.html


or you can save a slide show in lightroom to a pdf file. Then bring the pdf file into Adobe Acrobat and under file click "Document Security" and insert a password.

I have a friend who did this.

Good Luck

[Banbert]

If you compress them in a ZIP or RAR archive and use a decent length (8+) alpha numeric password then it would take a very long time to brute force it.

an 8 digit alpha numeric password using upper and lower case has 218 trillion combinations.... add symbols to that and your talking 7.2 Quadrillion combinations!

http://www.lockdown.co.uk/?pg=combi

[MrsOpie]

my husband said to do a Zip or Rar file with a password. I'll just go with that. I need to make it simple enough so the client can open the file but it would take just an extra step for someone if they were poking around.

[morlia]

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[GertS]

If you use a password, don't take easy ones. There a lists of passwords that are frequently used. So no names of partners / kids, birthdays, special events as most people assume these first.
When I create a new password, I take a piece of paper and jot down some random characters, numbers and symbols like '_', '&' etc, but no system.

As Banbert already mentioned, you need a certain length too.

Don't forget to write the password down so that you can remember it.

[strmrdr]

I would also do a contact sheet with image names to make it easier for them to find the picture they are looking for in the zip file.

[Bobster]

I would also do a contact sheet with image names to make it easier for them to find the picture they are looking for in the zip file.kinda negates the password really..

[Derbyshire Weddings]

Use pictures to exe.

[strmrdr]

kinda negates the password really..
umm not if its in the zip file....
if they use something like winzip to open it they wont get previews unless they extract it.
The contact sheet will allow them to find out the image name they want too open quickly.