Recently I needed to develop a method for creating password protected backups of my application’s data. The original idea was to create a password protected zip file which I could just do using /usr/bin/zip. Unfortunately, the OSX archiver utility cannot open password protected zip files, making it very difficult for users to actually open the zip files.
So after a bit of research I came across http://github.com/andreyvit/yoursway-create-dmg. This guy has created an awesome little shell script that allows you to create .dmg files with pretty backgrounds and all sorts of other things. I forked it here so that I could add the ability to set a password. And then I just execute the shell file using the NativeProcess API built in to Adobe AIR 2. Here is the javascript:
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