How to Password protect/encrypt file to send to someone else?

[TitusVorenus]

I need to send medical files to a provider and they only use dropbox. They can't tell me if it's hippa compliant or not. I want to send the files encrypted & password protected, so they just have to enter a password on their mac to open them after downloading from dropbox.

I tried zipping on a windows computer with winRAR. The file opens with a password prompt on my mac but not the other office.

Is there a solution that will be easy for the person on the other end?

 

[barbu]

You can password protect PDFs quite easily, other formats will have other solutions. Are they PDF files?

 

[TitusVorenus]

You can password protect PDFs quite easily, other formats will have other solutions. Are they PDF files?

Mixed group of files about 300MB worth. Multiple CBCT scans or DICOM files which are thousands of images and xrays in total plus PDFs plus JPEGs.

 

[bogdanw]

Have you tried with Keka (ZIP - Method: Normal - password)?
https://github.com/aonez/Keka/releases
https://www.keka.io/

 

[NoBoMac]

+1 on Keka. And for just unarchiving, The Unarchiver.

‎The Unarchiver

‎The Unarchiver is a small and easy to use program that can unarchive many different kinds of archive files. It will open common formats such as Zip, RAR (including v5), 7-zip, Tar, Gzip and Bzip2. It will also open many older formats, such as StuffIt, DiskDoubler, LZH, ARJ and ARC. It will even...

apps.apple.com

Sounds like the office does not have any WinZip-like programs installed, so it's mostly on their end.

Mac I believe will do encrypted zip files without any extra software.

Since you have a Mac as they do, can always create an encrypted DMG and add the files to it, upload the DMG to Dropbox. Make the format "MacOS Extended" to be safe (they might have an old version of MacOS).

Create a disk image using Disk Utility on Mac

Use Disk Utility on your Mac to create a disk image.

support.apple.com

 

[barbu]

Encrypted Disk image is a very good option.

 

[TitusVorenus]

Have you tried with Keka (ZIP - Method: Normal - password)?
https://github.com/aonez/Keka/releases
https://www.keka.io/

No, I will try, thank you.

+1 on Keka. And for just unarchiving, The Unarchiver.

‎The Unarchiver

‎The Unarchiver is a small and easy to use program that can unarchive many different kinds of archive files. It will open common formats such as Zip, RAR (including v5), 7-zip, Tar, Gzip and Bzip2. It will also open many older formats, such as StuffIt, DiskDoubler, LZH, ARJ and ARC. It will even...

apps.apple.com

Sounds like the office does not have any WinZip-like programs installed, so it's mostly on their end.

Mac I believe will do encrypted zip files without any extra software.

Since you have a Mac as they do, can always create an encrypted DMG and add the files to it, upload the DMG to Dropbox. Make the format "MacOS Extended" to be safe (they might have an old version of MacOS).

Create a disk image using Disk Utility on Mac

Use Disk Utility on your Mac to create a disk image.

support.apple.com

I am trying this method first. The DMG was quick and painless, I hope it works on their end.

 

[Fishrrman]

"Encrypto"

Encrypto: Secure Your Files on the App Store​

https://apps.apple.com › app › encrypto-secure-your-files

 

[auxbuss]

You can create a zip file with a password from the command line. e.g.

zip -er test.zip *

will create a password protected file called test.zip (after prompting for the password) that contains all the files in the current directory.

You can decrypt the file with macOS's Archive Utility.