Changing A Passphrase - McAfee OFFICE 3.1 User Manual

Move your mouse around in a random manner within the Wizard window
and/or randomly press characters on your keyboard until progress bar
shown in the dialog box is completely filled in.
The mouse movement or character pressing on your keyboard generates
random information used by the PGPdisk program as part of the
encryption (data scrambling) process.
9. Click Next. A progress bar indicates how much of the PGPdisk volume has
been initialized.
10. Click Next to mount your PGPdisk.
11. Click Finish. The format window appears on your screen.
12. Enter a label for the new volume (this label identifies the volume in
Windows Explorer).
13. Click Start. A warning dialog box appears.
14. Click OK (there is no data on the disk). The system indicates that
formatting is complete.
15. Click Close on the format window. Your PGPdisk volume appears in an
Explorer window and an icon representing your volume also appears in
the location you specified. Double-click the icon to open the volume.
For more information on PGPdisk volumes, see PGPdisk online Help.

Changing a passphrase

After you have created your passphrase while creating a PGPdisk volume,
you can still change this passphrase.
1. Make sure that the PGPdisk is not mounted. You cannot change a
passphrase if the PGPdisk file is mounted.
2. Select Change Passphrase from the File menu.
3. Select the PGPdisk file of interest.
4. Enter the current passphrase in the Passphrase dialog box. Then click OK,
the New Passphrase dialog box is displayed.
5. Next, enter your new passphrase following the same procedure when you
created the old passphrase.
6. Click OK. The New Passphrase dialog box closes.
You can remove any passphrase you created or add an alternate passphrase,
see PGPdisk online Help.
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