Now go ahead and open Spartan, clicking on Go! at the splash screen.Īt the Choose a File screen, browse to and then select your password file, clicking Choose once you have done so. I just used one of these (and for expedience sake I paired down the contents to only have about 100 possible passwords, one of which was mine).
Now let’s download Spartan, a tool built by Ryan Kubasiak. If you would rather do so from the command line I covered how to do so in a previous post. And let’s just go ahead and uncheck the option to create an entry in Keychain for the password. Go ahead and click on Create and then at the resultant password screen go ahead and provide a password to be used. This will bring up a screen where you can provide a name for your home folder and a size, then select either AES 128 or AES 256, which is a bit slower. From Disk Utility, create a dmg file by clicking on the File menu and selecting New and then Blank Disk Image. A dmg file can be encrypted fairly simply. Dmg files can be used for a variety of purposes, from encrypting a home directory (ie – FileVault) to encrypting a file structure manually.
A dmg file is a compressed file structure, capable of containing folders, files, etc.
