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Is 1Password Compatible with PGP Whole disk Encryption v 10?

CurtisGB
CurtisGB Junior Member
edited December 1969 in Mac
Want to encrypt iMAC Boot Disk with PGP but will 1Password work with an encrypted HD?
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  • jpgoldberg
    jpgoldberg Agile Customer Care
    edited December 1969
    Hi Curtis,



    Welcome to the forums!



    1Password will work just fine under these circumstances. Whole disk encryption will not be a problem at all as the whole thing will be transparent to 1Password and to every application running on your system.



    What we do not recommend is placing your 1Password data on a volume which which may be disconnected. The 1Password app does not deal very well in cases where your data suddenly becomes unavailable. This is not an issue for whole disk encryption, because your data will be available whenever the 1Password application is.



    I hope this helps. Please let me know if you have other questions.



    Cheers,



    -j
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  • MikeT
    MikeT Agile Samurai
    edited June 2010
    There's nothing that wouldn't work with an encrypted HD, even for security applications like 1Password. The reason is that while PGP is software based, the entire hard drive itself does not know it is being encrypted, so it is completely invisible to all applications running on it. The term we use for this is transparency, it's all done in the background, users and applications don't see anything different about their environment.



    1Password isn't affected by anything outside, it does its own encryption and decryption without depending on anything else.



    As Jeff mention, frequent "unsafe" disconnects will corrupt data and with encryption running, it is almost impossible to repair data without backups, so it doesn't just affect 1password but any applications running off it or running data on it.
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